And despite the occasional slip of a date reference from various executives, an official ship date still hasn't been set.

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Thirdly, they complain that the beneficiaries of the scheme are to be picked by reference to official poverty data, out-of-date and unreliable (the 150 districts, for example, are not necessarily the poorest).

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Reference books need never go out of date.

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Mr Obama is, at least, bang up to date with his reference to the iPad, which now joins the illustrious list of technologies to have been denounced by politicians, and with his grumbling about the crazy theories circulated by the combination of blogs and talk radio.

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