He did get one thing right, though: Technology now offers even distant viewers the ability to heckle in real time.
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In the past, the Bundeswehr has mostly done easyish jobs, even in distant places.
Obama's targeted tax cuts will make the worthy goal of tax simplification an even more distant object.
In some states the deceased spouse's parents, siblings, nieces or nephews and even more distant relatives receive a cut.
Back in 1987, before the PalmPilot was even a distant glimmer on the horizon, Kaplan, then a computer scientist working for Lotus Corp.
Even though distant branches often have no money to dispense, the bank's removal would destroy any stirrings of a money economy.
Mr Bush's other main second-term goal on the home front, to simplify America's bewildering tax code, seems an even more distant hope.
And has the Kosovo war made even a distant settlement more likely?
Therefore, I opted not to apply academic standards of transliteration, which have a way of making Arabic names even more distant and unattainable to a Western reader.
For BlackBerry to stake a claim on even a distant third place spot, it doesn't just have to finally measure up to Android and iOS, it has to convince those growing more tired every day that the waiting is finally over.
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In the distant (and even the not-so-distant) historical past, these systems of motivation and control were largely in sync.
Camus was a first-rate philosophy student, and the French meritocratic system had purchase even in the distant province.
The next step is harder, because it requires designing the right sort of products, and then getting even the most distant sales staff to market them adroitly.
Michael Dell even returned from a distant role as chairman to resume operating responsibility for the company.
During the height of the scandal the thought of just breaking even seemed like a distant dream.
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As competition from bricks-and-mortar firms intensifies, making break-even points ever more distant, the future looks gloomy for Britain's new breed of entrepreneurs.
One can argue that it is not America's job to fix the world's problems, to stop the killings in distant lands even if, as we now know, those killings involve horrific weapons banned by international agreements that set a limit to our inhumanity even in times of war.
Questions from the distant past, even about unrelated matters, were flung at him with no opportunity for him to give thoughtful answers.
For my Gen X brethren, even if we feel safely distant from such bad corporate behavior, our parents can certainly validate it.
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Even though he had a distant memory of speaking and hearing, he had never learned the facility of reading words upon the tongue.
Present polls put her in distant third or even fourth place, with 16%-18% of the first-round vote, compared with 28% or so each for Mr Sarkozy and Mr Hollande.
The transfer of power in 2010 from the army to civilian authorities has been one of the main advances of Myanmar's political transition, so any step back, even if only in a distant corner, has worried reformers.
But the broadcasters accuse EchoStar of selling distant signals to customers even if they can receive local stations.
Even Yukos now seems like a distant memory, with the main Russian exchange, the RTS, up 84% this year.
The question now is not are there planets orbiting distant stars, or even how many, but what do these planets look like and, crucially, could any support life?
Carbon offsetting allows consumers to quell their eco-guilt even as they jet off to distant climes on holiday, and drivers of sports-utility vehicles to argue that they have atoned for the emissions produced by their gas-guzzling cars.
First, tax losses represent an interest-free loan that defers capital gains taxes you would otherwise owe into the distant future, and can even eliminate them entirely when you die.
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