• There lived a little boy who was misled by another little boy and this is what he said.

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  • The funds that aim to beat a benchmark by just a little and usually fail (after costs) to do so are being retired.

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  • But Arends does delve into an important issue: no growth in revenue as the volume of actual trash disposed of has declined in the U.S. Manufacturers are using less packaging, consumers are re-using grocery bags, and little-by-little that overwhelming urge to reduce, re-use, recycle has gone from social movement to second nature for a lot of people.

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  • By creating a little bit of competition and a little bit of fun through an internal application, they got much greater participation in that information sharing.

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  • "In a very naive way, the advantage of quantum computing is that by being a little bit of zero and a little bit of one, you can do two calculations at once, " says Raymond Laflamme, a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

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  • He believes that the British people worry too much about the damage caused by free markets and too little about the damage done by big government.

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  • Roy always said that Pam and Shelley, side by side, looked like Little and Large, because Shelley was tall and thin.

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  • The wee gadget, spotted by Engadget is a fun and cheap little invention by Japanese company Takara Tomy.

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  • Many scandals have been unearthed first by outsiders with scrappy news sheets and little to lose by way of influential contacts.

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  • Yet high-speed rail has become an ideological issue, supported by Democrats and opposed by Republicans with little reference to the specifics of any given project.

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  • This consists, first, of paying too much attention to the upstream development of new inventions and technologies by scientists and engineers, and too little to the downstream process of turning these inventions into products that tempt people to part with their money, and, second, of the belief that national leadership in upstream activities is the same thing as leadership in generating economic value from innovation.

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  • Make one little error in that little 8 yard by 8 foot situation and it's a catastrophe, he suffers from that...

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  • Yet, the hand wringing, bumbling generals led by a madman and backed by a German public with little appetite for war unleashed the blitzkrieg that would shatter the French and British forces in less than 7 weeks.

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  • The first singles by Stiff Little Fingers and The Undertones got into the charts and stayed there for weeks.

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  • But it was roundly criticised by Republicans and had little support among Democrats.

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  • By exercising a little discipline and eliminating down time at work, one could increase productivity by as much as 25 percent!

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  • The public, for its part, was well used to both main party leaders by now and showed little interest in getting to know them better.

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  • Meal times at home have all too often become places where members of the family pass by and spend little or no time in contact with each other.

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  • But every day, USAID and others are working to help Haiti recover and to rebuild, little by little, over the next months and over the years to come.

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  • Burnley appeared buoyed by their goal and Little fired in a shot through a crowded area after Tony Warner failed to collect a cross, but it was somehow kept out.

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  • Interest rates can range from 15% for secured auto loans to as much as 40% for unsecured loans, appliances and electronics, driven by high demand for loans and little or no credit history for the borrowers.

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  • Described by publishers Little Brown and Co as "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising", there were mixed reviews for the novel when it was published in September, with Rowling variously described as "unadventurous", "bleak" and "brilliant" by newspaper critics.

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  • Mr Paterson is accused of performing "cleavage-sparing" mastectomies at Solihull Hospital and two private hospitals owned by Spire Healthcare in Solihull and Little Aston, Staffordshire.

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  • Novels and stories always will be put down little by little out of personal feeling and personal beliefs arrived at alone and at first hand over a period of time as time is needed.

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  • In reply, Richards chopped on the first ball but Smith had the West Indies rattling along at around eight an over before he was undone by a delivery that kept a little low and he was well caught by Mushfiqur Rahim behind the stumps.

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  • And it requires a little will and backbone by Congress to agree to the fundamental premise that is widely supported around the country that we need to tackle these issues in a balanced way.

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  • Lord Broers, a distinguished engineer and former vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, was worried by how little we spent on research and development as a country compared to rivals - 1.7% of GDP in the UK, as compared to 2.8% in Germany and 2.9% in the United States.

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  • "Off the top of my head, two other songs that I can immediately think of with this type of lyric are 'Hey, hey, you, you get off of my cloud' by the Rolling Stones and 'Hey little girl I want to be your boyfriend' by the Ramones, " she said.

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  • In the days before mass production, mass distribution and mass media, when customers knew the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker by name, they made little distinction between the seller and the product or service offered.

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