Or maybe it was the result of the 59th attempt of fiddling with the concept.
After 10 infuriating minutes of fiddling, I got up and found the master switch.
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Washington politicians have spent years fiddling with carrots and sticks and regulations and mandates.
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But fiddling with your GPS, especially when driving a new route, can be downright dangerous.
But to Singapore's credit, its incessant fiddling with various levies seeks to incentivize work and entrepreneurism.
In the case of Barclays, two very different sorts of rate fiddling have emerged.
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Last month the finance minister, Chris Kuruneri, was locked up for alleged foreign-exchange fiddling.
Increasing the planet's resilience will probably involve a few dramatic changes and a lot of fiddling.
Greenspan's need to defend himself smacks of worry about his place in history--fiddling while Wall Street burned.
Mr Sarkozy bores easily, tapping his feet, twitching or fiddling with his mobile phone when others speak.
In the midst of a breakfast at a hotel in Paris, Louboutin was fiddling with his iPhone.
So a little fiddling of the books in the US has some serious repercussions around the world.
The peer, who was jailed last year for fiddling his parliamentary expenses, maintains he did nothing wrong.
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When he started out, it could not have been a worse time to start fiddling with flywheels.
At the end of the day, no amount of fiddling with the SPR can replace sound energy policy.
Fiddling with our phones, they say, addresses a basic human need to cure boredom by any means necessary.
Viewers saw Austin standing in the news studio, fiddling with his jacket buttons and staring into the distance.
Alexza is still fiddling with the shape of its device, to be powered by batteries and other means.
About three minutes after she began fiddling with the phone, she dropped it.
Optimists, however, argue there may be benefits from today's fad for currency fiddling.
When that happens Pakistanis know powerful interests are fiddling with supply and demand.
Otherwise, we will be fiddling as the Anthropocene comes to an abrupt end rather than moving toward the Sustainocene.
In other words, no more fiddling with the Rock, Snow and other terrain settings, if you don't want to.
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Enron and WorldCom were seen to be largely about fiddling the figures in financial reports and rewarding executives excessively.
The Welsh Labour government are fiddling the figures to disguise their own failure.
People were fiddling figures to get rich, while small businesses paid the price.
The stock blue cable is remarkably seductive, and frankly, it's pretty tough to keep your hands from fiddling with it.
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The real challenge, they say, is not fiddling with structures, but raising enough money to free Oxford from state control.
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But by far the best route to fairness is not fiddling with the universities, but improving the state school system.
But he has long argued that constitutional fiddling is not the way to win Quebeckers' hearts and ensure national unity.
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