They grease the skids for clinical trials, too, by assembling networks of doctors and patients who want to participate.

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But the longer it is allowed to wait for that train to arrive, the greater the temptation to grease the skids.

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Combined with advances in "solid state" internal storage and quicker broadband speeds that make downloads and streaming less painful, a post-DVD era could grease the skids for Apple and its competitors to make increasingly thin, light and inexpensive computers.

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