Indeed, calligraphy is no longer the basic tool of intellectuals and officials but has become the preserve of professional artisans and amateur enthusiasts.

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It effectively arrives as a basic tool for you to customise with apps to create the kind of mobile device that suits your lifestyle.

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High-performing team leaders take that basic tool to a whole new level, exploiting it to inspire and enable people to work together as a team.

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The most basic tool of all is a decent income.

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Originally, Microsoft was set to include a basic management tool for CLB within Windows 2000.

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By using the basic capitalist tool of financial reward.

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And building a very basic development tool might encourage more people to eventually learn how to program Objective-C, or whatever iPhone apps are coded with in the future, giving the iPhone platform a stronger farm system.

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Meanwhile, future-focused consumer advocates seem to be giving CMS a free pass on its current failure to provide a basic, reliable and usable tool.

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The basic concept is an eating tool that measures three metrics -- how long you eat for, how long between each mouthful and how many of them you take.

ENGADGET

You may have noticed Google's forecast feature on your HTML5-capable smartphone browser -- simply typing "weather" into the search field brings up a basic real-time temperature tool, complete with hourly and five-day forecasts for your current location.

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In a very basic sense, he has put a powerful new tool at the service of the human imagination, enabling filmmakers to marry fantasy and reality.

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The e-learning programme is founded on the basic and practical principle that the use of the internet as a learning tool not only creates anonymity and thus dismantles the psychological barriers that prevent illiterate adults from resuming their studies but also enables them to balance their work, family and learning commitments by learning at home at whatever time is suitable to them.

UNESCO: Ich will lernen (I want to learn)

This is the most basic level of OBV analysis but as the gold example illustrates it can be a powerful tool.

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