Even a cursory glance at Icahn's record shows he will respond to that incentive.

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Even a cursory glance at the statistics reveals a problem on a huge scale.

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Even a cursory glance at Exhibit 4 reveals that economists are simply useless when it comes to forecasting.

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Even a cursory glance at the iOS titles available in the App Store will show a huge number of games available.

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One explanation could be that indexing works by titles and authors alone, as happened with printed journals, forced readers to cast at least a cursory glance at work not immediately related to their own or even that the mere act of flicking through a paper volume may have thrown up unexpected gems.

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When she was discharged from hospital, Neale took only "a cursory glance" at her wounds.

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