That grim figure from Germany, in particular, turns conventional wisdom on its head.
"I think we've turned conventional wisdom on its head today, " Sandoval said, adding that he hopes the Genting project will encourage more foreign investment in the Strip.
Moonrise Kingdom didn't come into my head in a conventional way.
Proponents of putting monitoring tools into the hands of the patient argue that it empowers them and so turns the conventional health paradigm on its head.
But last year, that piece of conventional wisdom was turned on its head.
On a cheerier note, though, Stephen King, chief economist at HSBC, questions the conventional wisdom that bond yields must head back up.
In this topsy-turvy environment, you might be better off turning the conventional year-end advice on its head if your bracket will be higher next year, says John Hewitt, chief executive of Liberty Tax Service, a national tax preparation firm based in Virginia Beach, Va.
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"The silver lining is the shape of the profile of these projects, which is different than conventional ones, " says Simon Flowers, head of corporate analysis at Wood Mackenzie.
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The prefrontal cortex is the most peculiarly enlarged part of the brain in human beings, but whereas the part near the top of the head generally seems to be involved in conventional intelligence, the "orbital" region tends to handle the processing of social information that is, assessing the moods and personalities of other people.
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Dye sublimation is a printing technology that uses layers of transparent color dye, special dye-receptive paper and a heated printing head to create images that are pretty close in quality to conventional photographic film and paper--up to 16.7 million colors and 403 dots per inch by 403 dots per inch.
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