Do you believe we could defend our social model or our cultural exception as strongly if France is weakened, if the French-German tandem is weakened?

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The first thing we noticed was the camcorders' weight -- they're all incredibly light, with the PJ model as the one exception, since the projector infrastructure adds a bit of heft.

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The feature, which is intended to reduce texting while driving, is part of Ford's voice-activated technology, Sync, and is already installed on all model 2012 Ford vehicles with the exception of the Ranger.

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The Standard Model of Particle Physics describes all the known properties of nature (with the exception of dark matter).

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In the 2008 election cycle his model nailed the winner in 49 out of 50 states in the presidential race (Indiana was the exception), and correctly predicted the winner of all 35 Senate elections.

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