• If they succeed, they will have done a near impossible thing: to merge open source development practices and for-profit products without users feeling ripped-off.

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  • This is obviously a near insane thing to believe, to think that people with lower incomes in poorer countries will actually have more wealth than people with higher incomes in richer ones.

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  • "I don't think you ever close the door to being prepared for what eventually may come, but I think that is not a near, near thing, " she said at a news conference.

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  • We should recall that it was a near-run thing when George Bush senior decided to ask Congress for permission to repel Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.

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  • Swisher was asking about Pinterest's mobile efforts, and Silbermann suggested that in the very near future, asking such a thing would be borderline silly.

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  • Higher inventories are presumably a good thing if they result from informed optimism regarding near-term sales growth.

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  • Tempel 1 is up in the sky and in the--that's actually a fairly easy thing to see, because it's near Jupiter.

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  • Yelling at people from the lifts: rude when people fall, but a good thing when they do something cool (like recover from a near fall, or do a sweet trick).

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  • For one thing, this kind of high-speed innovation seems to require a near-addiction to a rapid flow of data that everyone can agree on, with a good feedback loop to test ideas.

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  • While some commercial companies promise to tell you what is the optimal diet for you to eat or whether your kid will be a star athlete, the reality is that genetic testing is nowhere near capable of doing any such thing.

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  • If the road is completed soon it could mean either that infrastructure work is advancing smoothly - which would of course be a good thing - or that Mr Koroma has used his presidential clout to improve a road near his own personal house.

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  • Her friends, their friends, near-strangers she'd meet at a party, would all pull her aside to confess: This thing you're talking about, this book you're writing.

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