Back here on Earth, however, we never thought we'd get bandwidth-envy this far out in the sticks.
He spends much of his spare time trying to pep up a restituted family farm out in the sticks.
But many of the new councils are out in the sticks, well away from the national media's spotlight, and such local press as exists is not always keen to tangle with local bosses.
The accounting version will analyse whether a company "sticks out from the pack" in areas such as accruals, which are non-cash entries that can be manipulated by management.
Put volume in excess of 18, 000 contracts sticks out like a sore thumb against open interest in the sparsely populated November contract.
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In fact, the bill holds out more sticks than carrots to the developing world.
Mitchell Baker, whose after-hours pursuits include conversational Mandarin and amateur trapeze flying, sticks out more than a little in the overwhelmingly male geek church of open-source software.
In Japan, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
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With so much debt, Lazard sticks out among the firms that specialize in offering merger and other strategic advice.
For example, a genetic database created by Spectra Biomedical, a division of Glaxo Wellcome, found an unexpected correlation between migraine attacks, serious depression and variations in the dopamine D2 receptor (a molecule that sticks out of certain nerve cells).
In the 1992 opening ceremony, Birch and his colleagues handed out glow sticks to the audience and some started throwing them onto the field.
Liane, rescue workers have been digging in the sagging ruins of a house, in the basement, with sticks and shovels to try to pull out at least 20 bodies that are estimated to still be in there.
And maybe the next time, when our economies are moving in a more positive direction, we might actually have time to take out the sticks on the golf course.
Just like in the tale about the three pigs, houses are basically made out of three things: straw, sticks and bricks.
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Despite years of bemoaning their own saying ("A nail that sticks out gets hammered in"), too many Japanese continue to be pushed into the woodwork.
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