They get about 12, 000 phone calls on Thanksgiving Day alone from customers in a jam that need quick advice and emergency cooking tips.
They hope to use the Texas grid, which (fittingly, for the Lone Star state) stands alone from North America's eastern and western power grids, as a crucible for their reforms.
Language, geography and history have combined to isolate Brazil from its Spanish-speaking neighbours on the far side of the Amazon rainforest and the Parana basin, let alone from the wider world.
They destroyed AIG, where the economic consequences alone from the unraveling of credit default swaps would have contaminated a long list of banks, brokerage houses, even commercial real estate operators and private investors.
The government of the United States, the moving spirit behind Nuremberg, is today the main opponent to the creation of a permanent international criminal court, and is fighting to win exemption for itself alone from the court's jurisdiction.
When Obama moved into the Oval Office in 2009, federal spending rose above 25 percent of GDP and remains above 24 percent today, 56 percent higher than projected the year Bill Clinton moved out of the White House, which translated into an additional one trillion dollars in federal spending last year alone from where Bill Clinton had spending headed.
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It is almost entirely comprehensible from the images alone and from the nuances of expression on the actors' faces.
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InterMune is far from alone in benefiting from such off-label use.
No one in my family had attended, let alone graduated from, a university.
Even if the concept of laptops in schools isn't flawed, this isn't the way to go about getting them into the hands of students -- let alone students from a country that is listed in the mid-hundreds on the GDP rankings.
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The ones who seemed to disappear off the face of the planet, like Macauly Culkin from Home Alone, and the men from Miami Vice?
WaMu is far from alone in its penchant for bank branches and far from the first to spot their potential.
Massachusetts bans doctors from receiving so much as a pen, let alone sports tickets from medical companies.
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Despite the fact that Britons were far more likely to die from murder (let alone cholera) than from rabies, tales of fatal cases filled the newspapers during the 1830s.
Pfizer is far from alone in its new enthusiasm for drugs that kill resistant bacteria.
Mr Sarkozy's book has grabbed the most publicity, but it is far from alone.
Alone and weak from thirst, he stumbles down to the shore, tastes the salt water, and collapses on the beach.
But dolphins are far from alone in noticing death and suffering and dealing with it as social animals.
"It's air-conditioned, " Meyer said of Wal-Mart, while Starbucks offered anonymity and "alone time" from Dashilar's high density, he added.
Though certainly unique, the Intrapolis project is far from alone in the class of architecture better left on paper.
In fact, we are far from alone in taking this matter very seriously.
The final selection was truly international: the cello section alone has players from ten countries, including Palestine and South Africa.
It is hard to imagine King Abdullah holding his own against such seasoned politicians, let alone wringing concessions from them.
He lives alone, aside from a stray calico cat with matted fur, which he has named El Gato and sometimes feeds.
According to John Dilworth, a London-based maker and historian, his use of reusable templates alone distinguished him from all his contemporaries.
During that time the population of London alone had exploded from one million, to three times that figure, with all its attendant social ills.
Of course, the Web is far from alone in feeling the rebound.
Of course we were far from alone in worrying about these costs.
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