Many local councils used to fear that regional government was a big threat to them as it would suck up a lot of their power.
Yet Intel and Sun face a potential threat from the upstart Transmeta, whose chips run only 75% as fast but suck only 20% of the power.
Charlotte was born when her mother was 26 weeks pregnant, has never left hospital and is fed through a tube as she cannot suck from a bottle.
By the end of 2013, mobile games will likely suck in 4-5 times as much consumer spending as Vita and DS games combined.
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The answer is that, aside from humanitarian concerns, crises in such far away places often suck the United States into crisis as well.
To compete with hand-picking, robot harvesters will need to twist, pluck, cut or suck produce from stems and handle it as gently as possible.
The first minister said the Labour party was in "cahoots" with the UK government and claimed such a relationship could only end in one way "the Tories will suck you in and spit you out as they have done with the Liberal Democrats".
As a result, gas station pit stops combine to suck up 4% of the average Wyoming resident's annual gross income, compared to less than 2% for a typical New Yorker.
The maggots them suck it back up, cleaning up the infection as they go.
But as one commentator recently pointed out even the best recommendation engines suck.
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As is often the case, Wall Street is going to suck in unsuspecting moms and pops and the professionals are going to make money at the expense of moms and pops in 3D printing.
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Like power plants, data centers, with their acres of servers, suck up millions of gallons of water a year for cooling (as an alternative to using electricity-hogging mechanical chillers).
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He also co-authored the best-seller Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up with Carville, as well as Take it Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future.
It combines a dehumidifier with a water purifier, to essentially suck the moisture from the air and, instead of discarding it as one normally would, purify it to make it potable.
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By contrast the Sonos ZonePlayer S5, introduced earlier this month, is built to suck up music from an iTunes collection, Internet radio stations such as Last.fm and Pandora, or subscription music services such as Napster and Rhapsody.
Amtrak has stumbled along for almost 40 years, and outside a few corridors that can sustain heavy traffic and can make a contribution to energy security, it only exists as a wispy network of long distance trains that serve no other purpose than to suck the taxpayer dry.
In early December, Ki-Suck Han, 58, was shoved onto the tracks in a Times Square station as a train approached.
As the blue laser sweeps the bottom of the slide, the optical threads in the broom underneath suck in the blips from the fluorescent cancer cells and shoot them through the other end of the broom handle and into the lenses.
The risk here is that as Huawei and ZTE continue their assault on low-end smartphone market, the arrival of iPhone 4S will suck the oxygen out of the high-end smartphone segment, triggering order cancellations from Samsung, Nokia, LG, Sony Ericsson and HTC.
Some of the abuses have long been obvious: California's farmers suck up 85% of the state's water at subsidised rates and then grow thirsty crops such as cotton in the desert.
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