Microsoft undoubtedly evaluated creating a Metro-style version of Office for Windows 8 just as it has created a Metro-style version of Internet Explorer.
The company claims this is a world first -- a soundbar-style speaker to feature a built-in vacuum tube, and we hunted it down to soak in its majesty.
Britain is entering a team for the first time in the Warrior Games - a Paralympic-style competition - and the prince is known to be a supporter of the competition, after he met UK troops who took part as individuals last year.
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There are many possible scenarios, including a continued gradual recovery, a double-dip recession, a Japanese-style stagflation, or a genuine depression.
'' It is a moot point whether the present trend toward individualised pensions could withstand another 1970s-style, let alone a 1930s-style, slump.
But since his election Pope Francis has been living in a simple two-room suite in the Domus Santa Marta - a hotel-style residence built by Pope John Paul II next to St Peter's Basilica.
Built in 1988, the 4-bedroom, 5.5-bath home is a European-style design with a stone exterior.
There are more Vietnamese than westerners at this handsome place in a colonial-style building with a frangipani-shaded courtyard.
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She hired designer Kristy Kropat, who turned a Mediterranean-style casita into a modern-industrial room with modular furniture, LED accent lights, metallic gray walls with pixelated Space Invader vinyl decals and bright pops of color.
Diretide itself is a fresh experience, combining a capture-the-flag style minigame with a cooperative MMORPG-style raid to finish things off.
Huddled in a damp fire-station a young man connects a laptop, a binocular-style iris scanner and a glowing green machine that records 30 points from a set of fingerprints.
But Antigua and its tiny sister island, Barbuda, with their combined population of 65, 000, about that of a medium-sized town in Europe, were allowed to go it alone, bequeathed with a British-style parliament and a decent cricket ground.
What it is, is a 16- by 14-inch aluminum platform with two 14-inch wheels on either side, and a scooter-style handlebar on a stem.
"What happened in Long Branch to achieve Pier Village is an atrocity, " says the 53-year-old Mr. MacCloud, who now lives in Tom's River in a ranch-style home a couple of miles from the water.
Colorado and New York also passed new gun-control requirements in the wake of the Newtown shooting, in which a 20-year-old gunman used a military-style semiautomatic rifle.
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Originally known as the Omni International Complex, it was a multi-use facility that offered a European-style hotel, fine shops, restaurants, and two 14-story office towers.
In the 1990s, Boston Market was then-known as Boston Chicken, a home-style buffet eatery that had a flourishing stock, multiple locations, and fervent growth, all masking the poor franchise sales made yearly.
Conceptually, the system appears to be very similar to the Social Bicycles model that we wrote about earlier this summer as part of our Insert Coin series, though that US-based prototype includes a u-style lock, for securing the bike to a post or tree.
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Her installation featured a remote-controlled harness and sling to help get a disabled person out of a hospital-style bed, as well as a "cozy chair" that tilts and adjusts easily, and moves around on wheels.
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The double king offers a king-size bed, 32-inch flat-screen TV and a European-style bathroom that you'll share with one or two other rooms.
There's even a laptop-style trackpad supporting multitouch gestures -- a rarity on products like this.
The process was slow: Over the next 35 years there, he constructed a hacienda-style main house, guest casitas, a six-car garage, an exercise area, three swimming pools, and two barns, which were once used by his wife, Karen Sharp, to breed Andalusian horses.
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The path was cleared for Mr Van Rompuy and Lady Ashton after the British government at last accepted what had been obvious for weeks: that there was scant support for Tony Blair, and there was near-consensus for a chairman-style presidential post.
Simon Jackson, an Australian designer who made his name catering to expats and local tycoons, did the last renovation in 1993 when the kids were teenagers, changing what had been a Spanish-style villa with a Japanese garden into a neoclassical home, adding some ornate touches and the outdoor pool, but in a "California" palette of creams and yellows.
The controller features dual analog sticks, a d-pad, face buttons and shoulder bumpers for a console-style control experience on Android devices.
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Therefore, a long Japan-like deflationary stagnation is a more likely scenario than a 1970s-style stagflation.
The site also features Coleman performing a rap song, and a Gary Coleman-style tamagotchi (a computer-animated "pet").
By comparison with a Japanese-style malaise, even a traditionally painful, but finite, recession would seem like a lucky escape.
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