• Every year, mags and papers trying to prop up sagging sales come up with goofy lists. they create an array of supposedly hard data points that are supposed to add up to something who is the most obese, the prettiest, the place with the best hotels or the stingiest tippers.

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  • Plus, the Cloud Storage 4000 grows with a user's storage requirement, allowing users to start off with one SATA hard disk with the ability to add up to four drives (up to 16TB of storage) as needed.

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  • She has the indispensable knack of being able to write a well-turned scene, and "The Great God Pan" is full of scenes that are so subtly drawn that you can almost overlook their failure to add up to a fully convincing whole.

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  • And this just goes to the point that I was making that there's an opportunity here for Congress to act in a positive way to do what outside economists say would boost growth by up to 2 percent next year and would add up to 1.9 million jobs next year.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And it is very clear through this process -- clear and unfortunate -- that the obstacle to passing significant legislation that would grow the economy by up to an additional 2 percent next year and add up to 1.9 million more jobs, according to outside economists, was the Republicans.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Indeed, battery firms, both old and new, are coming up with innovations that add up to the 8% annual gains.

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  • And so to collectively add up numbers to suggest that we have in total some 200, 100, five minutes -- whatever it may be, Mr. Chairman -- I would respectfully disagree: for in the instance of the St.

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  • Is there reason to believe they may add up to something this time?

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  • For Rick Randall the journey from modest blue-collar beginnings in a Buffalo suburb to riches didn't add up to much, given that he lost his family in the process.

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  • Even a modest increase, when multiplied by the 5.4m civil servants who are due to receive it, will add up to a lot more spending on travel, telecoms, clothes and other desirable things.

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  • All you need is to add a Books to Read page to any relevant intranet, sign up to be an Amazon Associate and add a message: "To buy any of these books, click here" -- where "here" is the link to Amazon.com.

    CNN: When digital culture meets print culture

  • "On one occasion people may say it's an insignificant amount up to three or four hours, but if you wanted to go three or four times to do it it's soon going to add up and it's going to erode any sort of income that people have, " said Mr Williams.

    BBC: Blue badge

  • Catering to the Little Emperors and Empresses can add up to big money.

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  • But Singapore officials and electronics analysts are at pains to stress that all this does not add up to a "hollowing-out" of the island-republic's electronics industry.

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  • If you include the 1 billion people who are now going hungry, the additional mouths to feed over the next 40 years add up to three extra Indias.

    ECONOMIST: The answer is less straightforward than it seems

  • But the fact is, you can add up everybody else's shariah compliant finance - financial instruments under management and they don't add up to what Iran has under management.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • The dramatic contrasts of tone and scale, the sweeping lines of the ridge, the well-tracked path to the empty summit all add up to an arresting image, a strangely beautiful world where humans don't quite belong but yet intend to tread.

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  • The important thing to remember is that 1, 000 millirems add up to 1 rem.

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  • For each hundred pounds trimmed off a car, drivers could save about 1% to 2% on fuel economy, which could add up to billions of dollars nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

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  • They have access to the codes, they can clean it up, add to it, and distribute it worldwide to kick some conficker ass.

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  • Politicians are naturally happy to see such self-sacrifice: it may not add up to much compared with the huge weight of the nation's financial predicament, but it fosters an air of crisis and helps prepare people for the tough times to come.

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  • Maddin pulls out all the stops in this elaborate pastiche of silent cinema, home movies, avant-gardish subjectivity, multimedia spectacle, and Grand Guignol hysteria to get at self-pitying childhood traumas that ultimately add up to a strict mother, a distracted father, the primal scene, and his first crush.

    NEWYORKER: Brand Upon the Brain!

  • Now he continues to put back, to build up, to add.

    ECONOMIST: Modern American painters

  • The decor, such as it is, dates back to its founding in the early 1900s and doesn't add up to much more than mirrors interspersed with Gothic columns and a pale tiled floor.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Hungry for Paris'

  • But I think once we have essentially thousands and thousands of supporters linked to the party as well, they will want to contribute - in small amounts perhaps but they'll add up to large amounts too - so that we get alternative sources of funding.

    BBC: Transcript of Peter Hain interview

  • That is why the President believes so strongly that we have to pass the jobs act, because outside economists say it would add up to 2 percent to our GDP.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And anyway, there's always fun to be had laughing at the bus conductors as they try to work out how much their 750, 000 Zimbabwe dollar notes add up to, and how much change they owe the passengers.

    BBC: Queuing has become a fact of life in Harare

  • The addition of a logarithmic response to an exponential increase in the cause of something can in fact add up to a straight line, which is very obvious in a suite of the temperature projections made by our friends at the U.N.

    FORBES: Global Warming Flatliners

  • Hence, he says, his take-it-or-leave-it offer in September to PAL's three unions: a 20% employee stake in the company plus three seats on the 15-member board - in exchange for a commitment not to strike for 10 years and cuts in employee benefits that would add up to half of take-home pay.

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  • "What I'm saying is that they've got it very wrong in the past and that qualifications must be made to count" came the answer from Andrew RT Davies which doesn't add up to "yes".

    BBC: Welsh Baccalaureate or bust?

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