You might not find this an issue though -- some of us at Engadget do prefer slipperiness like that of Wacom's Cintiq.

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Mr Netanyahu's continuing slipperiness over the settlements has made Israel's allies and neighbours wonder how much the prime minister wants to make peace.

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Probably not, given spammers' knack for slipperiness.

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And, given that it's just slightly more compact width-wise than the GNote II, the G Pro actually feels better in the hand and doesn't confer a sense of instability or slipperiness so often encountered with Samsung's same-sized smartphone.

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Another act of Pakistani slipperiness, the government's failure to dismantle the latest incarnation of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) terrorist group that is alleged to have carried out a murderous commando-style attack in Mumbai last November, may be most troubling.

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