And come New Year's Eve, damned sure it will be flying off my noggin at the stroke of midnight.

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But it's damned-if-you-do, damned-if- you-don't for them and for IBM.

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He said that if their economy was stuck in the doldrums it was their own damned fault.

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All we know is, it's the biggest damned phone we've seen in a very long time.

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It wants what it wants, now, consequences be damned.

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And every single penny I spend will be more than worth it, graphics and frame-rate be damned.

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In the view of German officials, their key eurozone partners are now so terrified by the crisis, they'd sign up to anything that might make it go away - long-term consequences be damned.

BBC: No plan yet for the eurozone

Following the lead of the icon that ran the company over its heady past decade, Apple did what it wanted to do, the rest of the world be damned.

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"It was in with all my papers and we could never find the damned thing, " he said.

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But the narrative style suggests that, as far as this book is concerned, it's fiction--rather than history--that's just one damned thing after another.

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And it is why no policy adjustment, short of debt cancellation or hyperinflation, will make any damned difference.

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