Producers are bewitched by the rock-bottom cost of deploying a single man (usually) with a mic, just as in the music industry singer-songwriters are said to be outdoing more expensive bands.
And if I asked if you to name a single (unmarried) woman who is earning a good income, would your hand fly up just as fast?
This surge has been accompanied by the collapse of the lifetime-employment systems in Japanese and South Korean firms, which used to ensure that a single (male) worker's income could support a middle-class family.
Nothing can disguise the problems facing a new orchestra of foreigners playing to an unsophisticated audience in an 864-seat concert hall (a standard hall seats about 2, 500), at the mercy of a single corporate sponsor (the state oil company, Petronas), and in a tropical climate that makes instruments come unglued.
The bean counters like the fact that you can write an application once and then, with little expense and effort, modify it to run on a whole universe of Microsoft systems from the corporate network level (Windows NT) down to a single set-top box (Windows CE).
Just be careful of putting too much faith in dire warnings sounded by a single scientist (or team of scientists) about a single study.
And while the Peronists are a single (albeit fractious) party accustomed to a single chief, the two-party Alliance has a collective leadership.
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The story is straightforward enough: Benjamin (Michael Angarano), a lonely teen-ager being home-schooled by his poor single mother (Jennifer Coolidge) in a dome-shaped house somewhere west of the Rockies, salves his soul by writing and illustrating whacked-out science-fiction fantasies.
After you painstakingly sort through your camera files in order to find the first and last image of each panorama you've just taken, you simply drag and drop a collection of images (from a single panorama) into the program, adjust the amount of columns, select a few advanced options if you like, and then wait as it churns through and creates a single image.
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How to distinguish between preserving financial stability (a matter for the 17 euro-area states) and preserving the single market in financial services (a question for all 27 EU members)?
In my own personal experience, dual-core processor laptops tend to hold up better after three years of use (2008 to 2011) than laptops with a single-core processor (2005 to 2008).
Designed primarily for city and suburban use, the new car will be smaller than a Smart car (three of them can fit into a single parking space), light (around 500 kilos), twice as efficient as an average car and will have the lowest emissions of any car in the same class.
In addition to the Gross Clinic, some of Eakins most well-known paintings include Mending the Net (Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
It features a 3.5-inch HVGA (480 x 320) display, a single-core 1GHz CPU, 256MB RAM and Android 2.3 ( Gingerbread).
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By definition, there is nothing to prevent a single user (or bot) from adding multiple Likes to a brand through the sharing of links.
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It features a 3.5-inch HVGA (480 x 320) display, a single-core 1GHz CPU, 512MB RAM and Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean).
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Unlike other company rankings that use a single metric (generally revenue), Forbes works diligently to take a holistic gauge of the growth prospects for young, privately held firms.
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He bet big on social issues (and got a lot of (single) women to vote for him).
Whether it will be more supranational (as a single currency might suggest) or more inter-governmental (as the arrival of fiercely independent new members might foreshadow) is as yet hard to say.
Lagunillas has three lifts and 13 runs, a good ski school, a single refugio (mountain refuge) which can accommodate some 30 skiers, and a convivial family atmosphere, quite different from the larger commercial resorts.
Perhaps most importantly, software can access and analyze significantly more data than what a single person (or even a group of people) can do on their own.
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Not to forget the Evo 7, this tablet features a 7-inch WSVGA (1, 024 x 600) display, 1GB RAM, a single-core 1GHz CPU and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
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Understandably, then, the issuer base for 2012-model second-lien loans is dominated by (1) loans with CCC facility ratings (mainly from issuers with a single-B corporate-rating profile) and (2) unrated middle-market paper.
Or so it seemed until the 1950s, when collector Forest Sweet, who had accumulated six stray leaves (a leaf being a single two-sided page), deduced they came from Washington's original.
Single-payer takes a different approach to cost-savings, using the leverage of a single insurer (the state) to keep prices down.
Wells began the ninth with a single off Betancourt (1-1) and was credited with a stolen base when shortstop Jonathan Herrera dropped the ball while applying the tag.
Certain epidemiologic studies (mainly from a single group in Sweden) indicate an elevated risk of glioma (the most malignant type of brain cancer) in long-term users of cell phones.
The Wadi is not a single valley (as the Arabic word suggests) but rather a vast area of protected desert in which the Bedouin have established numerous government-approved camps.
What breakup and fragmentation there is especially among less-resourceful Americans unable to transition with their families out of one structure (say, marriage in a single-family household) to another (say, divorce, shared custody, and separate apartments) presents federal policy with not just a heavy lift but a weighty challenge.
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Check out the possibilities, from the Raspberry Pi (a single-board computer) to littleBits (electronic Legos).
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