The big stuff won't start until this weekend, but the first parades have started.
Brazil is a cash-based society where people pay in cash for big stuff, like cars and houses.
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In other words, you believe you won for the big stuff, not just because the voters didn't like the other guy.
Or sadly, was it a year of tragedies that caused us to reevaluate what the big stuff in life really is?
So how are we to save our decision-making energy for the big stuff, like choosing a job or planning for the future?
Call it crowdloading, if you will -- the new model made it more feasible to grab the big stuff like movies and whole music albums.
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The iWatch will attract derision if Cook poses it as anything other than a hobby and right now he needs to be fixing big stuff not playing in the sandbox.
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This year's Stomp will feature Robert Parker ("Barefootin'"), Jean Knight ("Mr. Big Stuff") and Lazy Lester, a Louisiana blues harmonica player whose song--first recorded in the 1960s--lent the festival its name.
Europe are with us on the big stuff: they are Atlanticists, they oppose a federal superstate, and they more or less believe in free markets (just don't ask our Polish friends about farm subsidies).
The big stuff is easy - your mortgage and car loan and council tax all come out of your bank every month and you can quickly add them all up and work out how much they total.
These folks make some big stuff.
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So we have a system of government that's pretty good at the big picture stuff now - as in keeping the peace - but seems to be struggling with the everyday business of governing.
Perhaps some home organizing stuff like big plastics boxes or cedar hangers or maybe some office supply stuff like cord bundlers or reusable envelopers.
It is a marked contrast to the big-vision, big-ticket stuff that was long an Oracle mainstay.
There are big choices to be made and our parties don't agree on some big, significant stuff.
In an interview with Bloomberg television Gorman says everyone just needs to calm down about the big bank breakup stuff.
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And whilst the first minister is doing the "big picture" stuff, the UUP leader is left wrestling with yet more internal ructions.
Clothes, same way: without credit, you'd wear your big brothers' stuff forever.
We can't--we don't have the room to make these big old projects or stuff like that.
What bothers me is that people actually think that they are making a big difference doing this stuff.
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Both times, the name of the band was a big secret, the stuff of attendee gossip on the bus in.
Conference rooms at its Bethesda headquarters are named for different kinds of candies--and have big bowls of the stuff sitting around.
"They asked me what it was like to be in the big leagues, the normal stuff, " Yankees left-hander Andy Pettitte said.
The big problem with this visionary stuff, as campaigners are well aware, is that there is no sign of enthusiasm for it among the wider public.
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