It's a minimalist contraption that includes only the bare essentials needed in a modern desktop computer.

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Instead of adding ever more bells and whistles, they strip the products down to their bare essentials.

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Against a backdrop of such uncertainty, Coulthard's newly-honed focus on the bare essentials of a race weekend faces another stern test.

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Frederick Hess, a professor at the University of Virginia, has written a paper for the Progressive Policy Institute arguing that teacher-licensing ought to be stripped to the bare essentials.

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When stripped to its bare essentials, the game is straightforward and might rapidly grow dull, yet millions of players have been active on the site for 10 years or more.

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