That is one of the reasons why Italian cooks are often compared to designers: On one hand you have the heritage of great ready-to-eat products like pizza, mozzarella, Parmesan, Parma ham, then on the other hand people like me.
On July 8, 2010, when LeBron made his announcement on a dorky, drawn-out, one-hour ESPN extravaganza with Jim Gray, many pundits immediately were ready to hand the 2011 NBA title to the Heat because of the Big Three of LeBron, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
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Constraints include a lack of on-hand ready-to-build lots (the price of pre-developed land lots has skyrocketed), tight lending standards for small to mid-sized builders, and a notable shortage of construction workers since tradesmen fled the city several years ago and have not returned.
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But not all were ready to hand Sony the console-wars victory.
He did not sound like a player ready to hand the baton to the 24-year-old Serb.
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As a result, HTC was ready when Western firms came looking for somebody to design and manufacture high-end hand-helds and mobile phones for them.
It was no coincidence, perhaps, that Mr Berlusconi then seemed to find fresh enthusiasm for the rough and tumble of political life - having previously hinted that he, too, was ready to hand over to a younger man.
Although the Doctor is ready to hand over Jex to the gunslinger, Amy gives him a talking-to, and he instead defends Jex.
But with the calls for excluding even large depositors from bail-ins, it also underscores how governments aren't quite ready to hand off control over how to protect their voters' savings, even if it comes at the expense of these voters' taxes.
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OEMs, on the other hand, can take advantage of these ready-made apps and offer them to their customers in an instant.
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The hand-built proto unit we played with wasn't really ready to have its ergonomics judged properly, but iriver has plenty of time until the expected May launch to iron out any kinks.
Apple didn't respond to Ryan's request for comment, and we doubt they'll respond to our own until they're good and ready to talk -- let's just hope there's not another faux hat-in-hand press conference in our future!
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