Does that suggest some deadline, that there's some -- a few days for the Sudan to respond?
And when we looked at some of the "likers" - for my virtual bagels and for some other pages - quite a few of them seemed to be engaged in "liking" everything they saw, with thousands of businesses benefitting from their admiration.
It is clear that in the late 1990s, there was a culture of pushing the rules as far as they would go, and, for some companies - perhaps a few, perhaps a lot - of pushing the rules beyond the proper or even the legal limit.
So, if you're going to be in Washington for the inauguration -- or for some other reason -- here are a few ways you can improve your chances of sending or receiving messages from your phone.
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"We did try to get some English-born players a few months ago, " said Lenegan.
Some politicians -- and a few economists -- would say that America is drunk on credit and just needs to go cold turkey.
Web sites such as GigaOm, TechCrunch and Valleywag--with a few laptops, a web server and some hustle--are crowding into beats once dominated by trade publications and enthusiast magazines who rely on printing presses and full-time writers and editors.
They are treated on a case-by-case basis, with some requiring a few hours' attention, while others stay for several days.
The Italian plumber, for example, started off perfectly, but began to degrade a bit as it went along, leading to a frayed bill of his cap and some messed up finger action -- nothing a few more tweaks to the calibration system couldn't help, no doubt.
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Countries where people once lived on a few dollars a day are now some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with incomes and living standards that few could have imagined 40 or 50 years ago.
In concept, at least, the cure--accepting a little imperfection, a few weeds, some patches of brown--is simple.
His team figured out a way to control Stanford's network with a few low-cost switches, some software, and a single PC.
And if you've got what it takes to look after yourself, with a little help from some earthy friends, here are a few off-the-grid destinations that will take you in.
So far Kaggle has attracted some high-profile companies and launched a few popular contests.
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Some are former co-workers, a few are close family and friends.
And this is a really wonderful treat -- some of them are replicas, but there are a few on there that are original ornaments.
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But the company was dismissive of our Virtual Bagel experiment which had managed to gain 3, 000 "likes" for a non-existent business in a few days by placing some adverts.
After all, I can have a face-to-face in a few seconds while posting takes some time and effort.
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Opponents of race-conscious affirmative action policies fear that racial categories may give some applicants a quantifiable benefit, but in reality, few admissions committees can say that there is a well-defined, systematic method of judging applicants to begin with.
Sure, there are some forward-looking initiatives, such as a few billion for broadband.
Some euro-crats (and more than a few people in Greece) feel the euro zone has been picked on by speculators.
The Post Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) provides the GL assessment tests mainly for Catholic grammars, along with some integrated colleges and a few non-denominational schools.
The fact that the prize wasn't awarded for two years, because of a lack of suitable candidates, probably made some ex-presidents squirm and fume, and, perhaps, a few incumbents scratch their chins.
Sprint aside, there are still plenty of regionals that don't offer unlimited plans -- along with some that do -- so we expect we're going to see a few more announcements in the coming weeks (or days, considering the pace at which these events have been unfolding thus far).
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Surely, you might think, the Congolese army - totalling some 150, 000 men - could easily crush a mutiny involving no more than a few hundred soldiers.
We took it for a quick flight through some canyons in an F-16 and, though we nearly blacked out a few times and came close to losing our cookies thanks to the over-sensitive head tracking setup, we have to admit the HOTAS was quite a joy to use.
When you can take apart some wily enemy robot with a few well-placed slashes in a ridiculously macabre version of Fruit Ninja.
Thankfully, it turned out to be very small and caused minimal damage to some staff quarters -- but it was a heartstopping few minutes.
My gut feeling is that there will be a few problems--some local power stations will go offline, some old mainframes will go goofy and maybe, with luck, the IRS will freeze up for a few days.
After first making a few tweaks to overcome some of Gingerbread's limitations -- it only uses NFC for reading tags -- they were able to develop a few social-minded applications that make use of the P2P functionality possible with NFC.
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