The NOAA report, for instance, noted some events that were exacerbated by other factors.

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On the one hand, he noted that Microsoft has a long history of providing cross-platform applications. (You can run Office on the Mac, for instance.) And he also noted that you can run the limited function Web-based version of Office in a browser on basically any device at all, including iPads and iPhones, to read documents and do some light editing.

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He noted the impact, for instance, on school district elections, which aren't as high profile as presidential contests.

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For instance, last week the Washington Examiner's senior political commentator Michael Barone noted a massive deterioration of US President Barack Obama' support levels among voters under 30 years old.

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"In this instance, it's about protecting things going out from the server, " she noted.

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For instance, Raymond Woosley , vice president of health research at the University of Arizona and a noted pharmacologist, has said that the antihistamine Chlor-Trimetron was originally approved not based on a clinical trial, but by a survey of doctors.

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For instance, when discussing his collaboration with Morgan Freeman on the set of Gone Baby Gone, Ben noted that Morgan preferred to only do a couple takes of each scene.

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