This doesn't seem like a particularly clever solution, until you compare it with all the others.

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They pick the least clever solution and spend the most money in hopes that will cure the problem.

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Yet Mr Cheng and his fellow directors may have found a clever solution.

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Mr Granger devised a clever solution to this, called co-integration.

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It has been a clever solution, but obviously the Chinese government is well aware of the practice and is said to be evaluating the use of VIEs going forward.

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Reversible data-hiding offers a clever solution.

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It's a clever solution to lugging around a separate keyboard or specialized case, but it's hard to say if RIM will implement what it's learning into a finished product -- the firm isn't in the best position to experiment with new tablet concepts, and we've already seen a few imminent solutions to the concealed keyboard problem from other vendors.

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Might a clever candidate champion a solution to the water problem?

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The team's solution is a clever one, if not especially pretty: human waste.

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But what concerns your correspondent about this chapter is that it spends most of its time describing an apparently cheap, simple solution to climate change: a clever idea fermented in a small set of laboratories at Intellectual Ventures, a firm run by Nathan Myhrvold, who was once Microsoft's chief technology officer.

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