Legislators concerned about Israel should know that inventors there - one of the most dynamic drivers in that nation's stupendous growth - are extremely dependent upon the protections afforded by the U.S. patent system, since Israeli patents are systematically ignored by other nations.

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It's a huge, stupendous goal, but he's also using the smallest and most fragile bacteria around.

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It's very unfair to detract from Corpus's stupendous victory and to detract from the achievement of Gail Trimble, their fantastically talented captain.

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Toyota has had a foreigner on its board just once in the past, in 2007, with Jim Press, an American who had headed Toyota's North American operations at a time when fears were growing about a possible American backlash over Toyota's stupendous growth.

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"The Return of the King" turns out to be even more ambitious than its remarkable predecessor, "The Two Towers, " though it's obviously not as compact (another relative thing), what with dramatic convolutions within its several plot lines and a stupendous martial passage that manages to dwarf the battle of Helm's Deep.

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Except for China and its stupendous rise, none of these has gotten much notice in the U.S. for years.

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