The dedicated mode dial is also more conspicuous -- there's no question that Sony wants to free up controls on the back for the future camera's more experienced target audience.
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The government's battle to extract revenue from traders, the most conspicuous non-payers, now stands at an uneasy truce.
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Since then, the media has been fairly quiescent, at least with no conspicuous follow-up coverage as of this writing on the major search engine home pages.
Conspicuous blue-painted bike lanes channel cyclists forward at intersections.
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"There is a shift in sensibility happening now shoppers are moving away from conspicuous It-bags, the vertiginous platform heel and gaudy in-your-face jewels, " said Kate Davidson Hudson, co-founder of the newly launched accessories shopping site Editorialist.
On a similar note, in this era of non-conspicuous consumption, when Target and Wal-Mart have become brand badges for those who can afford Saks and Neiman-Marcus, companies that represent prestige brands are going to have to work extra hard to make sure that the entire experience of the brand is worth its weighty title and price tag.
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Mini-HDMI output is becoming the norm for tablets, and its absence here is conspicuous and decidedly old-school.
And then, somewhere amid all this conspicuous consumption, Jay-Z picked up a special issue of The Economist.
Google showed up as the most conspicuous tracker on third-party sites.
There is even a correction going on in conspicuous consumption: Net-a-porter, a pricey website, offers to deliver designer outfits to its customers in brown paper bags.
Maria, it was not a thrilling match it was played at roughly three-quarters speed, sometimes far less than that. (Exhibition tennis is a little like airline food: sufficient when trapped with limited options, but no comparison to an authentic meal.) Roddick won 7-5, 7-6, a meaningless but still conspicuous result, as Federer owns a 21-2 lifetime record when the stakes are real.
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Executives deemed to be potential money-makers command conspicuous compensation and perquisites despite their recent and often glaring failures.
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Given his position and our topic of conversation -- Google's Project Glass -- he was conspicuous for wearing no eyewear whatsoever.
Overall, the attention to detail was conspicuous, from the feather-filled duvets and gossamer cotton sheets to heavy oak hangers in the spacious walk-in closet.
My train is chugging up the snow-carpeted mountain to the Alpine resort of Davos, once a refuge for consumptives and now, at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, home-from-home for the world's more conspicuous consumers (bankers, hedge fund managers, private-equity stars, inter alia).
Americans are as creative as ever, but today's buzz and big-money speculation are devoted to smaller-scale, less far-reaching, less conspicuous advances.
Because as economists have found and explained through signaling theory and conspicuous conservation, making your socially-focused choices visible can motivate long-term behavior change.
With the guile of Fabregas in midfield, Arsenal ran their opponents ragged in the first 30 minutes, but for all their slick passing and interchanges, goal-scoring chances were conspicuous only by their absence.
Now Bill Gates has taken Rockefeller's place as the man with the conspicuous market share, and Wal-Mart is the target of legislators who think retailing efficiencies should not be permitted to get out of hand.
Now Bill Gates has taken Rockefeller's place as the man with the conspicuous market share, and Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) is the target of legislators who think retailing efficiencies should not be permitted to get out of hand.
Diouf's name is conspicuous by its absence from the 23-man list released by African football's governing authority on Wednesday.
It isn't pretentious, in the old-fashioned social sense of conspicuous display.
Is this an effort, the venue, probably the most conspicuous of all venues, in prime-time, to sort of go big and put Republicans in a very public box on this?
Branded badges as virtual symbols of conspicuous consumption can be a strong check-in incentive in the short term among the early adopters, but they will probably have about the same shelf life and the breadth of appeal as a corporate island in Second Life.
The point is that the UK banks' downgrade is an inevitable consequence of government policy to reduce the likelihood that they would be bailed out in a crisis - of which the most conspicuous manifestation has been the Vickers' commission recommendations to put retail banks behind a ring fence and make creditors to banks explicitly liable to losses.
At a deeper level, though, the ad-hoc targeting of a few conspicuous culprits makes no noticeable difference to the way the country works.
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These sorts of conspicuous celebrations of consumption often seem less like life-altering rites, and more like the ultimate consumer experience.
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The imminent rise in power prices, which are almost impossible for households to avoid, will leave even less money left over for spending on non-essential items, augmenting retailers' conspicuous woes.
What does this mean for luxury companies with brands that, in less than a year, went from being on the "most wanted" list among well-to-do consumers to becoming badges of conspicuous consumption?
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