It happened in one of the most boring of all sectors: home appliances.
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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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Aside from a few scant nuggets of information, it was one of the most boring conference experiences of my life.
Now, thanks to the U.S. Congress, maybe you can skip the boring parts of movies, too.
You know, we're in a boring stage of the Internet, if you will, where it's a utility.
Lots of parts were unspeakably boring: methodologies of American jurisprudence, examinations of the American system of townships.
Welcome to the grueling and usually boring task of earning your daily bread.
Kuwait is no longer a boring oasis of stability in the Persian Gulf.
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Before 2008, the FDIC had a pretty boring responsibility of ensuring the safety of deposits at banks by insuring them.
You prefer the shuffle mode on your iPod and you skip the boring parts of The Tonight Show with your TiVo.
Once all the modular constraints had been accommodated, the Bentley's stylists were left with a fat, boring cube of a truck.
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The answer is a boring metric of demand, distance, fuel costs.
But Mr Haarde has been told by EU bosses that unilateral action without the boring necessity of joining the EU first would wreck relations with Brussels.
It has been a quiet, relatively boring summer of trading compared to the swoon of late 2008 followed by the see-sawing in 2009 and earlier this year.
He also recruited talented outsiders, luring Shiro Nakamura, a senior designer at Isuzu Motors for 25 years, to come put some pizzazz into Nissan's boring lineup of cars.
Over the past two years, whenever I'd enquired about a Uranus picture, I was always told that it would be a pretty "boring blob of light", with little to commend it.
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Surprisingly, Sun's resurgence appears to be based not only on the boring stuff of lay-offs and cost-cutting, but also on a vigorous plan to grow in an industry that is supposedly stagnant.
Writers vied to see who could heap the most scorn on the allegedly boring conformity of that receding decade, drawing supercilious caricatures of middle-class men and women of the era as superficial, plastic figures.
Although most of the bill is composed of boring technical language about the size of fines and the responsibilities of various parties, one section contains an interesting provision about the creation of designated protest and free speech areas much like Hyde Park corner in London.
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The trouble with visions is that they tend to provide little guidance on the boring business of implementation, such as getting systems to work together, putting infrastructure in place, keeping costs down, producing things that people actually want, and getting the sums to add up.
"We're kind of boring, " said reserve Ronnie Brewer, who has often started in Hamilton's place.
Why these boring old avatars of fantasy are interesting to anyone any longer is beyond me.
Sometimes the writer who overloads an opening passage is simply afraid of boring the reader.
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If it all works, Marconi will turn a collection of boring product businesses into new online services.
There is even a tunnelling academy in east London dedicated to teaching the art of boring.
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