Or maybe it was the result of the 59th attempt of fiddling with the concept.
Washington politicians have spent years fiddling with carrots and sticks and regulations and mandates.
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But fiddling with your GPS, especially when driving a new route, can be downright dangerous.
There may be an even faster method, however and one that avoids fiddling with electromagnets.
But to Singapore's credit, its incessant fiddling with various levies seeks to incentivize work and entrepreneurism.
Beijing has been manipulating the yuan downward, and Seoul has been fiddling with the won.
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Mr Sarkozy bores easily, tapping his feet, twitching or fiddling with his mobile phone when others speak.
In the midst of a breakfast at a hotel in Paris, Louboutin was fiddling with his iPhone.
When he started out, it could not have been a worse time to start fiddling with flywheels.
At the end of the day, no amount of fiddling with the SPR can replace sound energy policy.
Fiddling with our phones, they say, addresses a basic human need to cure boredom by any means necessary.
Viewers saw Austin standing in the news studio, fiddling with his jacket buttons and staring into the distance.
Alexza is still fiddling with the shape of its device, to be powered by batteries and other means.
About three minutes after she began fiddling with the phone, she dropped it.
When that happens Pakistanis know powerful interests are fiddling with supply and demand.
In other words, no more fiddling with the Rock, Snow and other terrain settings, if you don't want to.
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The stock blue cable is remarkably seductive, and frankly, it's pretty tough to keep your hands from fiddling with it.
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The real challenge, they say, is not fiddling with structures, but raising enough money to free Oxford from state control.
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But by far the best route to fairness is not fiddling with the universities, but improving the state school system.
Fiddling with the little brushes, fine powders and sticky tape can test the patience of the most fastidious crime-scene investigator.
Players are presented with a protein and given the task of finding its most energy-efficient shape by fiddling with its structure.
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China can allay some fears by continuing a nascent relaxation of currency controls (more important than just fiddling with exchange rates).
While fiddling with his Galaxy S III, XDA user Alephzain discovered a way to obtain root without flashing with Odin.
He was fiddling with a clay model of an early successor to the E-type when company founder Sir William Lyons walked by.
"No, " I said, and continued fiddling with the revealing paper before me.
Without those hundreds of unpaid hours spent fiddling with my recording gear, I would not have found my own sound, my own approach.
They allegedly communicated with bookmakers through signals such as shoving a towel into their waistbands, fiddling with a necklace, or adjusting a watch.
Even BBC Parliament Controller Peter Knowles acknowledged that some debates can be "grim to watch" with AMs "typing and fiddling with their computers".
Some 13%, however, claimed that they would be spending some of the holiday fiddling with their video or home computer to beat the bug.
Take "Sleep No More, " the immersive theater project in which masked audience members wander through the set, fiddling with props and engaging with the performers.
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