It is still seen as a boring company to buy from, even though its Surface and OS promotional campaigns drew a lot of attention.

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Last autumn, The Royal Shakespeare Company complained "boring lessons" were putting pupils off Shakespeare for life.

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Two hundred and fifty years ago, the company started out in the boring sugar trade, acting essentially as a middle man selling sugar from the source to the king of England.

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Finally, the most boring of this bunch is Computer Sciences, an outsourcing company for large corporations and the federal government.

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Walter Herrera, quality control and risk manager for the Chilean mining company GeoTech, has said his company was bringing a specialized device typically used for boring water holes to the mine.

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These workers carry out specialised tasks on our tunnel-boring operation and travel around the world as employees of the Italian company that is doing the work.

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The company has been left for dead by many customers thanks to its outdated stores and boring product offerings.

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Walter Herrera, quality control and risk manager for the Chilean mining company GeoTech, has said his company was bringing a specialized device -- a Scram T-130 drill typically used for boring water holes -- to the San Jose mine.

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