One moment they are appointing paper-clip monitors to deal with the supply of paper clips.
You can solve the Traveling Salesman problem using glue and paper clips.
The idea that options are an expense similar to paper clips is preposterous.
He'd provide an Internet marketplace where small and medium-size businesses could buy routine supplies, from paper clips to fluorescent lighting fixtures.
The third group, the guilt-primed participants who had been exposed to the warm bucket and paper clips, showed scores averaging 2.2 and 1.5.
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Who invests in a company that keeps telling you their financial statements have been put together with band aids, string, and paper clips?
Handy for catching the person stealing paper clips from your cubicle.
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The expanded product lines that have stretched Staples and Office Depot past pencils and paper clips and into computers and scanners might have something to do with it.
There were 100 items on the list from bottle caps to paper clips, and the first camper to deliver them all was slated for a couple dozen candy bars.
Those 10 undergo rigorous performance testing at the Trumbull, Conn. headquarters by white-coated lab technicians who run millions of pieces of paper through the equipment, spill coffee into copiers and jam paper clips into fax machines.
None of them were secure and all could be easily opened by a variety of simple techniques including the use of paper clips, straws, brass strips of metal, vibration, shock, coat hangers, and other methods that could easily be figured out by kids.
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The remaining 19 were asked to submerge their non-dominant hand into a bucket of warm water for 90 seconds, while moving paper clips one at a time between two boxes, to keep up the illusion of the task being related to physical capabilities.
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The four-strong Liberal Democrat group, more attuned to exercising power through coalition, gave it a day and a half before Lord Tope turned down the invitation to head the authority's fire and civil defence committee - seen by some as the equivalent of being paper clips monitor.
Instead, it's typically a more prosaic end: humanity wiped out because an AI tasked with a simple goal (say, creating paper clips, an example that is often used) requisitions all the energy and raw materials on Earth to relentlessly churn out paper clips, outsmarting and out-maneuvering all human attempts to stop it.
The teacher, an American expat, spoke to the class solely in English, almost unheard-of in French schools where foreign languages are taught in French by French natives, and we were all handed a phonebook-sized block of paper, full of lists of verbs and pronouns, useful tips, press clips (largely from The Economist) and other things to learn.
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He had big bulldog clips, a masonite board, yellow Ticonderoga pencils, erasers, sketchpads, drawing paper equipment that he stored in a grocery carton at the bottom of our bedroom closet and that my mother, when she was cleaning, wasn't permitted to disturb.
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