Second, it does not produce big shiny factories for politicians to preen themselves in front of.
Jim Rohwer, a former Hong Kong correspondent for The Economist who now works for Fortune, can preen himself too.
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Amid the caviar and oyster bars, cigar smoke and thousand-dollar hats, attendees come to see and be seen, to posture and preen.
As firms like ShareWave and TiVo preen their technologies for consumer markets, they also seek to strike deals with consumer electronics firms.
And politicians preen for the cameras, reveling in the free air time.
Meanwhile, Democrats preen on about the phony "war on women" and are increasingly desperate to lure attention away from their disastrous policies.
They are happy to let Spain and Luxembourg preen themselves as the only two countries to have secured yes votes in referendums.
The birds need open water for drinking and to preen their feathers.
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These are straight guys who preen, clean, shop and sip chardonnay.
They do nothing but preen as the regime transfers 500kg warheads and guided missiles to Hizbullah and deploys terror agents throughout Europe and Latin America.
Mayor Bloomberg should stop penning op-eds, stop diverting resources from disaster recovery, and stop setting himself up to preen for the cameras at the finish line.
Ainslie, while singing an extremely demanding role, was forced to preen and prance while wearing a variety of garish outfits that included fishnet stockings and a glittering codpiece draped in fringe.
The Chicken Dance begins: men dressed in colourful feathers, bent forward with elbows pulled back, shuffle and preen in imitation of the mating dance of the prairie chicken, to the obvious delight of the crowd.
Though he would certainly continue to preen and prance before the cameras, he might yet turn from populism towards something more practical, especially when the country's economic problems start to press upon him (see article).
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Each day, when the first rays of sun warm its ochre walls, the doline comes alive with the sounds of the red-green macaw, as formations of these exotically-plumaged parrots dive and wheel below the lip, periodically alighting en masse to bicker, preen and survey their domain.
For her second time campaigning Obama has taken to shopping her closet a Jason Wu dotted ensemble she wore in 2010, a Narciso Rodriguez pearl grey cotton poplin dress she wore in 2011, and a Preen pixel dress she has worn several times this year already, have all made appearances.
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It appalls me that there are so many "major" actresses out there (you know who they are, and, if you don't, you're responsible for the quotes around the word "major") who pout and preen their way through huge, star-making roles while somebody as immensely talented as Driver is very close to unknown with the general public.
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