Earmarks are symbolically potent but fiscally inconsequential, since they mostly parcel out spending rather than alter its level.
In particular, legal-process outsourcing is booming, as law firms parcel out some of their more basic work to reduce costs.
In practice, it is hard to parcel out the blame between technology and globalisation, because the two are so intertwined.
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Traditional exchanges claim they minimise this problem, because their floor operators can parcel out a big order among many traders without giving the game away.
Curiosity will use a drill and scoop, which are located at the end of its robotic arm, to gather soil and powdered samples of rock interiors, then sieve and parcel out these samples into the rover's analytical laboratory instruments.
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Police are still trying to find out who sent a parcel of potassium cyanide to the Osaka prefectural government in 1992.
In addition to posting his manifesto online, Dorner reached out directly to CNN, mailing a parcel to AC360 anchor Anderson Cooper's office at CNN in New York.
But really, Steve Auckland needs to grow a pair and realise that having the mickey taken out of you is just part and parcel of being a well paid senior executive.
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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is locked in an increasingly pitched battle with the government of Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, even as it has taken time out to target Western capitals in a recent foiled parcel bomb campaign.
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