It's much easier to believe--and probably true--that they screwed up, as an addicted gambler might.
Bottom line: If you are like most folks and live in a home that has things like stairs, beds and corners, these vacuums are not going to replace the tried and true up-right anytime soon.
Many retirees are lulled into these products without knowing the true costs or lock-up periods.
Her creator, the Cambridge start-up True Knowledge, is adding to the database all the time by scouring Wikipedia, Yellow Pages and other sources.
This is particularly true in the run-up to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) meetings to be held in Paris next week.
The same is true of a start-up.
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The Chung-Kwei method builds up its database of known true-spam patterns and constantly adds new patterns it spots.
This summer at the Culture Project in New York City, five South African actors are telling their true-life stories about growing up under apartheid.
The DuoSense pen offers the return of the lost art of handwriting and together with the true multi-touch solution opens up a whole new world of personal choice for the user in deciding how to interact with their computing devices.
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There is a common misconception that great ideas come from a blank sheet of paper, but this is simply not true - good developers will come up with better, smarter product designs if they know what they are trying to achieve and where they can look for existing know-how.
Or-in a true display of technology integration-viewers who were set up to use the department's videoconferencing system could ask their questions live, as if they were in the same room as the speaker.
True, he ramped up risk-taking, pushing deeper into leveraged loans and mortgages.
If you're a true e-mail addict, setting up Gmail or Hotmail through the preset "Add Account" dialog isn't good enough, because it can't immediately push new messages to the phone.
And for all Arsenal's pretty passing and intricate patterns in the second half, it was Chelsea who applied the killer blow five minutes from time when Alex concluded a fast bowler's run-up with a true touch of Brazil as he lashed a long-range free-kick high beyond Lukasz Fabianski.
Those who rely on email aliases will also like that Microsoft has finally let us choose an SMTP server to send messages from non-Outlook addresses without revealing the true source -- we won't have to put up with "on behalf of" tags any longer.
And the true players were elected politicians and paid-up party members, not aides or manipulators or journalists.
If you run a start-up, it is true that you are doing 10, 000 things and that your priorities tend to shift rapidly.
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True, 21 small units house start-up businesses ranging from fish-packing to futon-covering.
Fears that a true federal system might lead to the break-up of Nigeria, a fear with substance after the Biafran war of secession of 1967-70, are now misplaced.
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The true value will be found in the follow-up articles as the ideas that have been worked on for years are examined in detail, to see the public reaction to the ideas, and to have the ideas tested in the marketplace.
For a start, the order-to-delivery time is very long, up to two months, much longer than customers for true mass-market cars would be prepared to wait.
And true enough, earnings are up more than three-fold in a decade.
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Not true, say the lobbyists and art-collectors who make up the committee that decides these things.
An alert reader compared the Super Big Gulp with a true 44-ounce container from a competitor and it came up four ounces short. 7-Eleven confirmed it did make the change.
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In the last few years, there has been an ever-louder drumbeat of pundits saying the world is moving to eliminate cash, but the many businesses that have popped up in the hope this would come true--Bitbux, Digicash, CyberCash, Flooz, Netchex and PayPal, to name but a few--have found only limited success, or have died, or have been merged into other companies.
Mr. ADAIR: Well, we ended up giving it a barely true on the Truth-o-Meter.
True, you could buy a lot of minutes of dial-up time for a billion dollars.
It's a dream come true -- something you think about as a little kid growing up.
"It is particularly true for the males, which grow up to be shorter-than-average adults, " Prof Lee told BBC News.
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