The question is, can it also learn to do the boring stuff well?

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That was right before the housing markets in many parts of the country began an extraordinary boom and also a time when many banks were scrambling to get bigger in consumer finance, attracted by its promise of fat fee income, and scaling back in branch banking, which was considered low-profit and, well, boring.

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Boring and powerful?? Well, this is simply a savings account that is ideally connected to your checking account.

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She gave up the well paid "boring" job in her hometown of Berkeley, California, for a full-time job with The Idea Village.

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Technology stocks have been hibernating while the usually boring utilities sector has been, well, fired up.

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Don't think this means boring though - the characters are well-observed and the pace is still fast enough to keep the most mentally sluggish interested!

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Chevron began drilling this ultradeep well over a year ago, with the objective of boring down to big sub-salt prospects 29, 000 feet beneath the surface.

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The mouse could have been a little weightier, and looks a little chinsey and boring against the benchmark TiVo remote, but it did its job well enough.

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Save for the Old Testament look he tried on in "Evan Almighty, " he's maintained the same boring businessman haircut for as long as he's been in the public eye (and well before that, I'll bet).

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