Each one is stuffed with several hundred tiny glass spheres or shards, of random size and glued in place in a random pattern so that each token, which can be inserted in a credit card, is unique.
Lately sticky jobs and housing markets have glued urbanites in place.
In the dot-com bubble, Main Street investors, eyes glued to CNBC, eagerly invested in every new dot-com IPO.
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On the inside cover she glued a photo of Mason in a plaid shirt and blue-jean overalls.
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In fact, despite headlines declaring the sitcom dead in recent years, comedies have kept audiences glued to their TV sets for more hours recently than in the genre's early 1990s heyday, it says.
The fear is that a Europe of 25 will turn into little more than an economic zone, less glued together politically, and in which France will struggle to retain its traditional influence as Germany looks east.
It keeps the car glued to the road, even in high-speed turns.
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In fact, it hurts them because ten thousand people who could have been glued to a livestream of a pro player demolishing people in Halo 4 are now tuned into another game, somewhere else.
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Renee and their children were glued to the television set at home in North Carolina hoping to see Bradley in action.
When much of the country were glued to their television watching the events unfolding in New Orleans.
Every year, three times per week, the show attracts millions of fans who sit glued to their televisions, watching and judging in real time.
McAlary was the kind of by-any-means-necessary reporter who dragged his self-made legend behind him like a U-Haul, and Ms. Ephron has glued a dozen or so juicy anecdotes together in chronological order, unfortunately neglecting to dramatize them.
That's certainly one way to create a groove, and "Long Way to Go" recalls the wing of new wave that's less interested in synthesized smoothness (whether warm or cold) than in off-kilter shards of sound glued together to resemble pop music.
"An Indian GP would satisfy the legions of Indian fans of the sport who are currently glued to the television on Sundays and turn up in droves at various venues where large viewing screens are put up, " said Narain Karthikeyan, who became the country's first F1 driver in 2005.
They are best carried home by folding the wings back and enclosing them in little three-cornered envelopes, not glued, but merely folded over them.
Wednesday's team announcement did lay to rest a few worries which had come to the surface when Jeremy Guscott was spotted in the Brewery bar with a mobile phone glued to his ear - although there was some scepticism, the possibility that Guscott was being called up to replace BOD couldn't entirely be discounted given Sir Clive's somewhat erratic selection policy.
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At home, the man sits with his eyes glued to the front door, waiting for himself to walk in.
Gone are the days of waiting for results and having to remain glued to a television set to find out what is happening in Indianapolis.
The roads in Colombo are eerily quiet and most people are just glued to the news.
Arp was making sprightly geometric and free-form collages and reliefs, often composed by games of chance for example, shapes in colored paper dropped onto sheets of white paper and glued down more or less where they fell.
Sometimes when I glance in the rearview mirror, I'll see my kids glued to the screen, oblivious to the real world rushing by.
Then Tulle Hazelrigg, a professor at Columbia, modified genes in fruit flies so that the proteins they make have GFP glued to them.
The team's invisibility cloak exploits this effect, and relies on a specific geometry comprising two prism-shaped calcite crystals glued together, such that they leave a wedge-shaped gap beneath in which objects can be "cloaked" when illuminated with polarised light.
Brewer, who lost his job in the mortgage industry a year and a half ago, managed to grab his laptop, some clothes and papers from the room he lives in before traveling to a Camarillo church, where evacuees were glued to televisions watching fire coverage.
Unlike in previous models, the battery of the MacBook Pro with Retina Display is glued to its metal case.
As the dramatic spectacle of the Olympic Games opening ceremony in London unfolded Friday night, organizers estimated a billion people around the world would be glued to their television sets to see it, either live or delayed by a few hours.
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We are used to seeing a sort of steampunk grotesque in movies, digitally created, but here the inventions are real stitched, nailed and glued.
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Mr. ASTON-REESE: It's - well, the - you know, it starts more emotionally and mentally, because I've - believe it or not, my senses are much more heightened now, because I'm glued to those screens, looking for any blip that might show, what Adam always asks me, a crack in the ice, to show that we're going to get moving again.
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