• High-FFs keep their ambitions either low or -- as a mask for their insecurities -- extraordinarily high (knowing that failing to become a TV star will be kindly judged).

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  • Unlike the G3-powered iMac, the Cube uses a top-of-the-range PowerPC G4 processor -- running at either 450MHz or 500MHz -- so there's no skimping on performance.

    CNN: Up close and personal with the Mac G4 Cube

  • However, there was no such ill-effects when the volunteers drank red wine - either alcoholic or non-alcoholic - with their cigarette.

    BBC: Glass of red wine

  • Such a practice would avoid the situation in which the Senate found itself on the CTBT, namely a take-it-or-leave-it position, either rubber-stamp or reject the accord outright.

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  • If you can find an intervention -- either medication-based or therapy-based -- that produces significant improvements, this is a strong sign that your child will probably do well over the long term, especially if he or she continues with the treatment.

    CNN: What are the long-term effects of ADHD meds?

  • The 133 Mayfair apartments have a 24-hour concierge who will stock the refrigerator in your Poggenpohl-designed kitchen, and can be booked for either short- or long-term stays.

    BBC: Share this page

  • In July 2006, there were 45 different notebook models with embedded broadband--either EV-DO or UMTS modules--from nine notebook companies, and only seven networks had approved embedded wireless for notebooks.

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  • Executives--and human beings in general--tend to either over- or underestimate the importance and impact of obstacles.

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  • You can buy the 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLK with either a 4- or a 6-cylinder engine.

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  • He says that many people don't understand that the way they structure their thoughts, their relationships, and their physical conditioning will - over time - either promote well-being or contribute greatly to sickness and depression.

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  • If someone becomes sick -- either physically or mentally -- the crew has to be ready to cope with that, too.

    CNN: Mars on the brain? Red Planet pioneers to face cosmic mind trip

  • He told me that any more aggressive effort to stimulate the economy at that time - either fiscal or monetary - would have been "doomed to fail".

    BBC: Mervyn King still ne regrette rien

  • The Jabra Solemate connects to any device that can play music - either corded or wirelessly - using Bluetooth technology, a 3.5mm audio cable or USB cable, and caters to all types of uses, indoors or outdoors.

    ENGADGET: Jabra's $200 Solemate portable Bluetooth speaker wants to kick the Jambox aside

  • He refuses to be labelled as either pro- or anti-agreement, insisting he is a unity candidate.

    BBC: Rural South Antrim constituency

  • Yet now, more people are continue to work either full- or part-time even after retiring.

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  • For an industry that typically views travel as either business- or pleasure-related, the news comes as a surprise.

    BBC: Is your vacation an obligation?

  • The school requires all its students to take one course per semester in either Jewish- or Zionist-related subjects.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's reeducation minister

  • Moreover, there is little room for either short-or long-term interest rates to fall.

    ECONOMIST: On course, probably

  • One provides natural hearing when sound levels are safe and either 9- or 15-dB sound reduction when sounds exceed safe levels.

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  • Nor do they envisage a customs union, with a shared external tariff, since that would force either low- or high-tariff countries to make dramatic changes in economic policy.

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  • The glaze is applied to a fired stoneware vessel, which is then fired again in a repeated cycle of six stages of heating and cooling where precise temperatures matter a great deal: either over- or under-firing will spoil the effect.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • So that is one line that they are definitely pursuing with the help of European agencies, but also I think that British authorities are concerned that there may be either second- or third-generation of homegrown support that may have assisted in this as well.

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  • That is almost always work that increases revenue or profits, either short-term or long-term.

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  • We have to ensure that protocols that have been in place and developed since -- for many, many years, don't prevent either information-gathering or information-sharing so that somebody that's on the TIDES list can't go to the screening -- the database screening list and ultimately to selectee and no-fly.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Now, administrations in the United States and Britain are fending off accusations that they misled the public -- either unintentionally or on purpose -- about the existence of these weapons.

    CNN: War of words over Iraqi weapons

  • This is according to a new poll by Marist College and WNBC which says a McCain-Rice ticket would beat either a Clinton-Obama or an Obama-Clinton combination, 49 to 46 percent and 49 to 44 percent respectively.

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  • One of the reasons we stressed from the start the importance of a very well-resourced firewall with overwhelming capacity is precisely to provide that kind of insulation, so that when events -- either political or market events -- are destabilizing, that other economies in the euro area will be well protected from the contagion.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And what he will make clear is that you don't -- this is not an either-or proposition.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Which is why McKinsey argues that the UK is still at a very early stage in reducing debts sufficiently to allow a significant rebound in economic growth (as you will have read here many times, growth tends to remain insipid or worse, while businesses and households repay what they owe - either by choice or by order - because they invest and spend less).

    BBC: US ahead of UK on road to reducing debts

  • Almost all health insurance is covered by third parties--either insurance companies or governments--so patients rarely know what most health care services cost.

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