For its first 15 years research in Motion was a Canadian pager outfit almost unknown south of the border.
First, long-sightedness (presbyopia) is almost unknown at 35, yet is universal by 50.
President Yeltsin had sacked his long-time Prime Minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, in March, replacing him with the almost unknown Sergei Kiriyenko.
Nokia and Motorola may yet trade places again, but Nokia's rise is remarkable for a company almost unknown outside its home country.
And so he laid out an election plan for Marcus in a short pamphlet in Latin that remains almost unknown to modern readers.
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In Mexico, for instance, obesity was almost unknown in 1980.
But like most Chinese classics it is now almost unknown to European audiences: Chinese plays have been all but absent from British theatres since the fading of the fashion for "Chinoiserie" in the 19th Century.
Nokia has been making smartphones for years, using a proprietary (and aging) operating system known as Symbian, that is almost unknown in the U.S. but that is in heavy use all around the rest of the glob e.
Herzog said her team chose to focus on Colombia for the initial show because Colombian art is "almost unknown" here in neighboring Brazil, an illustration of the lack of mutual knowledge and understanding among the national art scenes across Latin America that Casa Daros aims to bridge.
Unlike his younger, media-obsessed brother, Teddy is almost totally unknown to the wider public.
Not only is she almost entirely unknown, but the heiress to the Cargill agribusiness fortune passed away in 2006.
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His cause is almost completely unknown outside of Germany, a quick Google search resulted in no english results.
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Professionals should be able to do the same but for reasons unknown, they are almost always way off.
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For almost a century he was virtually unknown and only in the last two decades has he re-emerged.
By randomizing patients, almost all factors (known or unknown) that might influence the outcome are present in equal proportions in the various treatment groups.
Traveling 120 miles an hour on a road built for cars can be perilous enough, but when you're -- almost literally -- heading into the unknown, it's a variable you can probably do without.
Much as Coca-Cola's success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.
As far as specs, he said it runs on x86 architecture, a "highly enhanced" PC GPU (with "almost 2 teraflops of performance, " he added), an unknown amount of local HDD storage, and 8GB of GDDR5 system memory.
Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people )'s success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.
Sun Hung Kai Properties, which is controlled by the Kwok family, employed an unknown bidder who waited until the 90-minute auction was almost finished before entering the fray.
Almost comically, a current favourite is the Belgian prime minister of less than a year's standing, the unknown Herman Van Rompuy, who seems not yet to have acquired as many critics as his longer-serving Dutch and Luxembourgeois counterparts, Jan Peter Balkenende and Jean-Claude Juncker.
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