This is a tribute to the firm's ingenious designers (who earn less in a year than their western counterparts do in a week), less so to the company's strategists.

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Mr. Dalton's ingenious staging using just a few chairs, tables and a bed that were fluidly moved around by five bare-chested Stanley look-alikes created the claustrophobic atmosphere of Stanley and Stella's apartment and allowed the singers, in Johann Stegmeir's period costumes, to create the story through the music.

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At the same time she, and the police, prepared for trouble by a number of ingenious administrative changes allowing the country's different police forces to concentrate large and mobile columns wherever needed.

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One of the more ingenious acts of programming we've seen lately (it's a shame Intel's not hiring), it still was a loophole not to be exploited, so if you see a fellow in Virginia Beach throwing down on 4:1 odds, stay sharp.

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For the 2010 elections, a Utah Republican running for U.S. Senate may get the nod for most ingenious use of technology.

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In the 17th century an ingenious smoker came up with the pipe tamper, or stopper, as it's known in England, a tool for pressing down lit tobacco in the pipe's bowl.

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