The first was traders internally in a bank attempting to get the fixing moved a basis point or two either way so as to flatter their own trading books.

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Since most people flatter themselves as dauntless and inspired, Google's challenge casts a wide net and applications are piling into Twitter.

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At first blush, it seemed just as flat, but not flatter, but we'll reserve full judgement until we can use the keyboard for an extended period of time.

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Mitt Romney hasn't yet made the case for lower, flatter tax rates as a boon to economic growth, but perhaps he'll be inspired by the power of his own example.

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As organisations today become increasingly flatter, and traditional career paths become a thing of the past, opportunities for leadership will emerge more and more from the ground up, rather than by decree from the top down.

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As the networking world transitions towards flatter and more scalable software-defined architectures to better a commodate the growing need for data, Juniper is looking to embrace the trend in a way that stops its hardware business from being commoditized completely.

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And as the novel paces steadily toward its revelations it gets flatter.

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The X7i's balanced-armature drivers deliver a flatter response and cleaner sound than the S4s, but as we experienced with the X10i, it might not sound or feel like a drastic improvement to most for the price.

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Details are still fluid on precisely what such a connector would look like and do, but the expectation is that it'll be built out of copper wire, will be flatter and thinner than Thunderbolt's rotund construction, and will be able to channel power as well as data through to devices up to 10 feet (3m) away.

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