But it does nothing to reduce the risks that the movie will be a box-office dud.
But at first Spirit's landing site at Gusev Crater was a bit of a dud.
If they did, though, stats from IBM Smarter Commerce suggest these initiatives were a dud.
And the player gets to actually play and prove that he's not a dud.
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Not to mention it turned the latest renewal of the famed rivalry into a colossal dud.
When Apple Computer introduced the first PowerBook in 1991, it was a dud.
President Ahmadinejad's speech before the UN General Assembly in September was a towering diplomatic dud.
No matter that when Windows 1.0 did finally appear, three years later, it was an ugly dud.
For all the Germans' much-vaunted efficiency in other enterprises, their wartime spy organisation, the Abwehr, was a dud.
Now investors move on to arguing over whether Botox for migraines will be a big product or a dud.
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There is nothing special going on at this company, and at this point we must deem it a dud.
The worst case scenario for Fox execs: a Rays-Reds World Series that might produce great baseball, but would be a ratings dud.
Picking the cheapest stock on the market might mean picking a dud.
As I wrote this week in Forbes.com, the meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy was a dud.
He quickly landed his own sitcom on CBS called How To Be a Gentleman, but it turned out to be a dud.
Among them are businesses who hand over their goods only to find later on that the cheque used to pay for them was dud.
The conference call was polite, but my take from the tone and data from the conference call is a confirmation that Windows 8 is a dud.
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But ever since that discovery, and ever since a massive share offering diluted shareholder value in 2009, this prime Brazilian investment has been nothing but a dud.
The film was scheduled to open on Christmas Day of last year, but was moved into early May, setting off buzz that the would-be Oscar contender was somewhat of a dud.
Guard William Buford led the Buckeyes (31-8) with 19 points, while star sophomore forward Jared Sullinger's possible last game for OSU before his seemingly inevitable trip to an NBA lottery team was a dud.
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Not that the season will be a dud.
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Instead, the 2012 Civic was a dud.
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Two of the remainder remain unsellable because they are still saddled with dud loans.
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