How can such a puny manufacturing base ever aspire to close such a gaping deficit?
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Now, on its very anniversary (oh cruel irony), the portfolio--all tech stocks--is up a puny 41%.
As it stands, puny ISPs pay for services without a clue about how the terms compare.
The potential for much bigger sales than that puny sum would seem to be great.
Still, its assets have swelled recently as investors have sought alternatives to puny U.S. Treasury yields.
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In the modern world, nation-states are too puny to handle many of these challenges alone.
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And you should never doubt the powers of reinvention of a once rather puny Austrian.
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Scotland's new parliament will not want to risk diluting its puny tax-raising power still further.
It diverts credit from infrastructure and manufacturing, sectors which create jobs and are far too puny.
Mr Spielberg never made that mistake: his dinosaurs were monsters menacing the puny humans.
As we view it from the puny scale of our lifetimes, the geography of America is permanent.
It forces employers to pay workers more than their productivity merits, puny as those paychecks may be.
But its puny fiscal powers mean that its politicians will be calling the tune without paying the piper.
Personal consumption grew a puny 1.3% in Q2, and housing construction, as you might have guessed, sank 7.5%.
This seemed generous at the time but now seems so ridiculously puny it pains me to write it.
Five tiny holes are drilled on the other side of the bottom, making up a puny speaker grille.
India's prime minister was in Tokyo this week to sign an agreement to boost (currently puny) bilateral trade.
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While you are there, using a powerful flashlight (not one of those puny ones) check for water spots.
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It has 8 gigabytes (GB) of flash storage and 512 megabytes of RAM, which is a bit puny.
The state's otherwise puny Republicans have the power to block tax increases, which require a two-thirds majority vote.
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The cap for 2004 was a puny 65, 000 (versus the previous year's 195, 000) and was exhausted on Feb. 17.
But DB managers see it as a vital step away from political interference, even if the proceeds are puny.
The number is puny in terms of global oil consumption, enough to supply world demand for approximately seven minutes.
But with a puny navy, Vietnam's options are limited to shaking its fist and trying to rally international opinion.
GDP, growth will remain puny until companies spread more of their profits around.
There was no way that the puny listener base would ever support that.
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During the 1990s, Egypt's share of world trade, already puny, fell by 20%.
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Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America all have puny yields.
Even junk issues have been inhaled by investors desperate for any yield pick-up over puny Treasury and high-grade bond yields.
Puny humans can quickly deduce the direction of a sound and assess its significance, while also ignoring unimportant background noise.
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