And that could actually end up saving us -- we were talking about this the other day -- it could end up saving us something like 500 billion barrels of oil, huge amounts of oil, because heavy trucks use so much.
They lifted the average by about 22 points and left only LG (which has few high-end US phones) and a pre-transition BlackBerry lagging behind.
Having launched an all-out blitz on the high-end of US smartphones, Samsung must be eager to conquer the mid-range as well.
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There will literally be no room to slide the low-end Lumia 620 into the US market under the mid and high-end devices.
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But in the end -- and this is where we get serious -- because in the end, these questions are on us -- right now.
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And early indications suggest that after a relatively good Thanksgiving, the November holiday during which US end-of year spending really kicks off, consumers have throttled back.
"The retailer became the River Awareness platform's enabler, and because they gave us end-of-aisle displays we wouldn't normally qualify for, we wound up selling four times as much, " he says.
"We're flattered and honored with the support we've received for 'Up' throughout the year, and this is a humbling, happy year-end moment for us, " said the film's director, Pete Docter.
David is not averse to the high-end stuff, but he tells us that Thais don't have a restaurant culture as such - it's all about market food - and he's going to help us scratch the surface.
"I want to end the mind-set that got us into war in the first place, " he said.
"Tim Ambrose and Adil Rashid were the difference in the end, giving us a 100-run lead and then it looked like it was getting flatter again but having someone like Rashid up your sleeve is good to have, " Key said afterwards.
To that end, more than four-fifths of us say staff should be better trained and more friendly.
Moments later, at the other end, a long-range strike from US striker Hercules Gomez was pushed aside by M'bolhi.
The stockings are hung by the chimney with care, and year-end reviews salary negotiations are upon us at work.
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This is because nearly two-thirds of US corporations end up paying the personal income tax on profits, not the corporate one.
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If you've been wondering how this particular action would affect sales of the high-end HTC handset, spokespeople assure us that it's business as usual for the company.
The interim president said he would not devalue the national currency, the peso, nor end its peg to the US dollar - seen by financial analysts as alternative ways to deal with Argentina's enormous economic problems.
In the end, service binds us to each other -- and to our communities and our country -- in a way that nothing else can.
The solutions to all three require us to end our dependence on carbon-based fuels.
Mozilla's aiming the OS at low-end phones in emerging markets, and told us that South America would be its first focus.
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This came to a head last week because the 2008 version of FISA is set to expire at year's end, and the US House passed a five-year extension with strong bipartisan support.
The players knew it was a goal, their manager knew it was a goal and they could have done something about it - let us go up the other end and score or something.
The fact is, while making the market more efficient is important (and would require us to end the dependence on employer-provided benefits) many aspects of healthcare are going to be immune to market forces.
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We first met Andrew Chang -- one of the co-founders behind LUMOback -- when he approached us at the end of our panel at SXSW and offered to show us his smart posture sensor.
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Doing something effective and substantive, such as creating a modernized version of the gold-based Bretton Woods international monetary system--which lasted from the end of the Second World War until the early 1970s and gave us an era of great, noninflationary economic growth--will not even be broached.
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