Sure enough, the bullish story has started to unravel, if only at the edges.

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Living inside their Beltway Bubble, they are convinced that the 2002 business regulatory act Sarbanes-Oxley is a success story, requiring only tweaking around the edges.

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Wales is to get a 60-seat assembly capable only of tinkering at the edges with what has been decided at Westminster.

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It's only around the palm rest where the edges get really sharp, but you won't notice it when the notebook is closed.

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The Kindle comes in only one color, white, and has rounded edges, like a really big aspirin tablet.

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Still, the comfort level is comparable to the RAZR Maxx, which is only a little thicker but features the same squared edges.

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The Carl Zeiss lens not only delivers spectacular image quality all the way to the edges of each frame, it incorporates a near-silent in-lens shutter and is far more compact than comparable lenses of interchangeable design.

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With a smaller image sensor, a lens designed for a 35mm camera captures only the inner part of the image, cropping off the edges that the sub-size sensor chip can't see.

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And so, above all, I hope the word goes out from our Olympics that not only do we run excellent world events, but we also balance buses on the edges of buildings like no one else ever could.

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In many cases this is the only way to reach a function, the Z10 has a distinct lack of buttons around the edges of the handset (volume, power, and camera) and there are no buttons at all on the face of the unit.

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