The failure of the Refresh campaign is one of several setbacks that Nooyi has experienced lately.

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So this is a good time to get a financial plan or refresh your last one and assess whether you are still on track to meet your retirement goals.

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To make the text larger than 10-point font requires zooming in on the document and dragging it around with the iRex's stylus, a naggingly slow process given E-Ink's refresh rate of about one second. iRex claims it redraws its screen faster than Kindle, but in Forbes.com's tests it locked up sporadically and often took far longer to refresh than Amazon's less flashy display.

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The limited number of polygons means that speeding up one of these systems to refresh the screen 60 times a second, as is needed to smoothly render fast-action scenes, requires cutting the number of polygons per screen to the point where detail suffers.

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In a high percentage of data centers today, these racks would be populated with servers one or two generations old, depending on corporate refresh cycles, and the average server would be a standard 2u height.

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Hence the articles that get split into multiple pages, image slideshows with one photograph and two ads per slide, and pages that auto-refresh faster than you can read them.

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One day Serlin decided to take a break from the scrap yard and get a soda to refresh her parched throat.

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