As ".com" became The Street's magical incantation, Internet-related IPOs gained an average 242% last year.

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And could you imagine Gandalf plodding his way through a spell book instead of issuing a majestic incantation?

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The incantation of names is, on its own, a powerful literary style.

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For the most part, magic incantation patents are few and far between.

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His father brought his incantation to a halt, his lips shut tight.

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And here we get to the ritual incantation: the eurozone simply is not an optimal curency area and thus it should not have the same currency.

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Michael Splinter was raised on the most powerful incantation in the tech industry, Moore's Law, which roughly holds that computing power per dollar doubles every two years.

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Best of all, perhaps, are the marvels of devotional incantation.

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