• Regular drum sets were complemented or replaced by bits of percussion that sounded like garbage cans being knocked together.

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  • Until recently, one way the space agency dealt with overspending was by shifting bits of its budget around.

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  • And despite mixed reviews, the Elle Macpherson-hosted show manages an innovative feel by borrowing bits and pieces from existing series.

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  • There are 800 miniature facsimiles of various inventors' dreams, once required by the U.S. Patent Office, all equipped with their original patent tags, attached by tiny bits of government-issued red ribbon.

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  • That kind of harmless hacking was channeled into a variety of competitions at the conference, including a lockpicking contest and a game of capture the flag, in which teams earned points by stealing bits of each other's data.

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  • It does so by biting off bits of the glucagon-like peptide-1 or GLP-1 hormone.

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  • Playing is free, but users can get ahead by buying extra bits and bobs.

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  • War, famine, cruelty, disease and suffering will not be eradicated by mips, bits or bytes, even if things improve at the margin.

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  • That is, they produce a stream of electrons (electricity) by forcing two bits of charged material, say nickel and cadmium, to exchange electrons.

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  • The government could then separate bad assets from good, appoint new managers and reprivatise the cleaned-up bits by selling them to investors (ideally, including some foreigners).

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  • In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits by Chris Anderson is from January 2010, but it is perhaps more relevant and on the mark today.

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  • Although the fledgling platform has some speed and stability problems, and its application programming interface (the means by which other bits of software plug into it) is not yet complete, collaboration experts are excited.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • He must have enjoyed reading them, especially the bits written by the quite famous people.

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  • They can also sharpen up business performance, by snapping up neglected bits of conglomerates and running them as independent businesses.

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  • The process works by showing only the bits that move.

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  • There was pessimism about prospects for getting anything back, except by buying it in bits and pieces on the black market, but a small team of curators arrived in Baghdad six months after the ceasefire.

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  • They were impressed by the way Knowsley gave users of its social services a say in their running, and by the way different bits of the council worked together and co-operated with other local agencies such as the police.

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  • When, in 1919, Ataturk set out to turn Asia Minor into a modern nation state, he was opposed not only by the Allied armies which had occupied important bits of it, but also by the imperial government that employed him.

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  • The page of bits is read by aiming the reference beam at the given location.

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  • By figuring out how likely bits of DNA are to switch place, scientists can order them.

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  • The oil world is gripped by the possibility that vital bits of Saudi oil infrastructure will be targeted.

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  • Through trial and error she found that she could achieve the hairstyle by sewing the braids and bits together, using a needle.

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  • Mr McElheny shows you the corporate entity, its culture, its joys and its frustrations, by piecing together the many bits of a remarkable jigsaw he accumulated over the decades, getting, in the process, inside the founder's incessantly creative brain.

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  • Already super-strong drill bits are being produced by a company called Nanodyne .

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  • Consider one new savvy move by Chrysler, and two new bits of validation.

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  • It would have been like trying to read all the random bits of data generated by the entire real-world staff on any given day.

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