And every evening, as we sit in the same room as a TV showing the highlights of events we knew the results of hours earlier (occasionally glancing up from our laptops to see whether the replay is remotely interesting), we also shake our heads at the lengths NBC goes to create the impression that all these replays are actually happening now.
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Despite losing a couple of lengths at the start, there were never any signs of panic from his jockey, a virtually motionless Queally.
The early pace had been set by Rock of Gibraltar's stablemate Sahara Desert, who led by as much as four lengths at the halfway stage.
While the Bush Administration evidently is disposed to accommodate the Soviet Union on most, if not all, of these items, it is going to great lengths at the moment to appear hard to get.
Rooster Booster, ridden by Richard Johnson, made all the running and led by up- to 30 lengths at one stage down the back straight.
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Sent off at odds of 50-1, Mine That Bird was 20 lengths behind the leader at the halfway point.
And the Tax Court, at the urging of IRS counsel, went to unrealistic lengths in finding that spouses failed the factors in litigated cases.
For his twelfth birthday, Sandy had gotten a large, flat black portfolio made of hard cardboard that folded along a sewn seam and was secured at the top edge with two attached lengths of ribbon that he tied in a bow in order to fasten the leaves.
This, after all, was the champion colt who two years earlier annihilated the field at Britain's prestigious Epsom Derby, winning by 10 lengths -- the biggest margin in the race's 226-year history.
It's a shift in thinking that is rippling through places of work, schools and homes as the very fundamentals -- chair at desk -- seem to cause harm when used for the lengths of time now considered normal.
The authors go to great lengths to describe how rogue thinkers at Intellectual Ventures hope to build a hose into the sky (suspended by large helium balloons) that spews sulphur dioxide constantly into the atmosphere.
The interplay of a wood ceiling, walls constructed from boards of differing lengths, and wood floorboards laid at an angle give the design a remarkable feeling of energy and flow.
David Barstow of The New York Times, working with Mexican reporter Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab, traveled across Mexico to look at Wal-Mart's activities and the lengths to which the company's executives would go to get their goals accomplished.
In the year to date, however, the Loan 100 remains several lengths ahead, at 4.37%.
It is well established that financial services firms will never, ever collaborate at the proprietary end of the spectrum and they go to tremendous lengths to guard their intellectual property.
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But at the same time, the health service is changing - average lengths of stay in hospitals are about one third shorter than they were 10 years ago, and there is more surgery where patients don't have to stay overnight on a ward.
Four lengths behind Rock of Gibraltar in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood on his previous outing, Reel Buddy, ridden by Richard Quinn, had looked boxed in three furlongs out.
The tabloid frenzy began long before their son, Rocco, was born in August 2000 and Ritchie and Madonna went to great lengths to keep the press away from their wedding at Skibo Castle in Scotland.
Because Ford and Volvo are joined at the hip in engineering terms, Geely has been forced to go to considerable lengths to reassure Ford that it will not simply purloin the pair's advanced platforms and powertrains for its existing car business.
While few would go to the lengths of the ancient Egyptians, whose desert cemeteries include several thousand animals and at least 2m mummified birds in the catacombs of the sacred ibises, the modern burial ritual is still an elaborate affair.
In her workshop at the Limerick Craft Hub, she showed me how the technique just involves a strip of silk, some lengths of spun wool, some water and a couple of hand sanders.
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