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"After five years of preparation, a small slip like this and a few moments can undermine the most meticulous preparation, " he added.
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Small slip-ups can have grave consequences.
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Easy-to-use gadgets that can keep track of your schedule, but are small enough to slip into a shirt pocket, palmtops are rapidly becoming the filo-faxes of the digital age.
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The original iPad and its first wave of rivals measured about 10 inches across, but more recent entries such as Amazon's Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7 have been 7 inches -- small enough to slip into a coat pocket.
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Glaze is mostly translucent, but da Vinci would also slip in small amounts of pigments, such as manganese and lead oxides.
ECONOMIST: The da Vinci method
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Anyway, why would a small-town Wisconsin band slip in a union anthem?
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Somehow, though, behemoths like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Sprint Nextel, and Hewlett-Packard have managed to slip into the "small" business category.
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AIDS. The likelihood that a mutant protein can slip through unnoticed is small: the spectrometer can tell apart proteins that differ by less than a tenth of a proton mass in weight.
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And while it can fit into a large pocket or handbag, the Note isn't going to slip unobtrusively into your jeans or a small purse.
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Fendi's iPad case is gorgeous, but it turned out to be heavy and too big to slip into another bag easily yet too small to carry wallets, keys and other items.
WSJ: Wanted: Satchel to Carry Everything
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Of course, if the Chinese slip into their old habits and let thousands of small-scale smelters spring up again, the market could be flooded with antimony and non-Chinese producers driven out.
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