In the prosaic world of real estate marketing Mark Segal and Jeffrey Jones have found a rarefied perch.
It sounds prosaic, but it's the first thing a planner will want you to do.
Most of the time speechwriting is a more prosaic endeavour, writing for moments that are humdrum.
That last prosaic task both masks and exemplifies the vital role that outsourcers like Aramark play.
They provide everything from advanced military hardware and components to relatively prosaic materials and supplies.
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Thirty years ago, the prosaic and government-subsidized savings and loan industry was on life support.
Many of the careers that exist in prosaic destinations are available in resort towns too.
The truth, at least as far as I can work it out, is rather prosaic.
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Now even something as prosaic as grocery shopping can display someone's financial and educational status.
Most investors wouldn't give a fund described as "relatively prosaic, dull, conservative" a second glance.
The prudent planner will suggest gifts, trusts, loans and such prosaic savings vehicles as government zero-coupon bonds.
Now it has become the way the president governs, even in something as prosaic as emergency communications.
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Some are prosaic but nonetheless promise to be time-consuming, like corporate-tax reform and a big highway-spending package.
In uncovering the secrets of life's survival on the Earth, astrobiology has some found remarkably prosaic applications.
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On The Other Hand, pilots want the cellphone transmission ban to continue, for more prosaic safety reasons.
But then, with Singapore's trade-dependent economy facing its worst recession in history, most people have more prosaic worries.
Just as running to keep fit was once considered bizarre, maybe mud running will one day seem prosaic.
Oppenheimer gave three reasons for the shift, two prosaic, and one very tantalizing.
But he recently suffered an unusual and expensive setback in a battle involving something more prosaic: a parking garage.
They are more infuriated than men by the gap between high-flown rhetoric and the prosaic facts on the ground.
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As a way of keeping their pulses steady, some investors have favoured more prosaic businesses, such as energy efficiency.
More prosaic firearms hunting rifles, handguns, shotguns are the typical first purchase, according to data from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
By comparison with the first 18 months, its legislative plans are indeed prosaic.
Most are small firms in more prosaic fields, such as restaurants or construction.
Instead, they may experience far more prosaic effects, which prevent them, and their family and friends, from recognizing their over-consumption.
Such an attack could be conducted by other means, with more prosaic delivery means such as trucks, ships or aircraft.
One reason for the emphasis on ideals is prosaic: Germany's economic reforms, at least for now, have run their course.
Another more prosaic reason for the repetitive nature of Munch's painting was that he hated being parted from his work.
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Anxious to transform the prosaic into the romantic, his admirers speak of a poet of light and the poetry of silence.
So I mapped some prosaic Neocom commands: open Assets, open Character Sheet, open Wallet (always important) and other navigational and combat commands.
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