• Upon joining Qualcomm, Paul was thrown into a group of engineers and was a bit out of place.

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  • This group has a bit of clout too.

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  • The board of American International Group has certainly found itself in a bit of a pickle, as it mulls whether to join a lawsuit that says the U.S. government went too far by demanding exacting terms when it rescued the company in 2008.

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  • "He may decide to look at those who have got high levels of wealth, which is actually a bit of a different group to those who have high levels of income, so a mansion tax, for example, for those who have very expensive houses, or looking through things like inheritance tax or capital gains tax, " Mr Johnson says.

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  • Upon joining Qualcomm he was thrown into a group of engineers and was a bit out of place.

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  • The best may be that barely 40 percent of House Republicans signed it, showing an unusual bit of discord for a group that normally governs with the same discipline that the Rockettes dance.

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  • Dubbed simply "The Cloud, " the structure would consist of two 400-foot tall mesh towers that are linked by a series of interconnected plastic bubbles, which would themselves house an observation deck inside and be used to display everything from Olympic scores and highlights to a "barometer of the city's interests and moods" outside (that latter bit comes courtesy of the group's partnership with Google).

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  • While we're not sold that there's only this single option for pricing broadband (one which heavily favors the provider's bottom lines), the group does bring a tiny bit of thoughtfulness to the discussion, with a member noting that Time Warner Cable's approach hadn't made a very good case for the practice.

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  • This would provide more incentive to young players to be the one of the group that earns an early extension, and give teams a bit of leverage in playing one player against another for that one deal.

    FORBES: Analysis

  • Last Thursday, on the other side of a wall from where Ms. Guthrie worked, Andrew Stewart, head stylist, painted a backdrop for a group of decanters, jewelry boxes and other small goods for the "Little Bit of Luxe" sale.

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  • Defense takes a bit more of a group effort, the entire unit working in tandem to keep opponents from getting good looks at the net.

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  • Matt Slocum, guitarist for the Texan group said it was a "bit of a shock" when a local newspaper pointed out what was glaringly evident to more worldly listeners, even if songwriter Lee Mavers has never outlined the meaning directly.

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  • It is much harder to discern any clear pattern with this group but I have no doubt that with a bit of digging academics will unearth the important correlations.

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  • So there is hope that the meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations in Washington on Friday will have a bit more effect, and investors are taking notice.

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  • For now, though, the CODA Sedan remains a little bit too rough around the edges to attract the Status Seekers, Greens and Techs, and a little bit too expensive to attract that bigger group of Price Conscious Buyers that CODA needs.

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  • The originals, 'Turnpike' and 'Capri' (the latter by Gigi Gryce), are a bit clipped, but the sound of the group is individual, and it derives from the simpatico pairing of Brown and Johnson.

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  • The group started moving with a bit more alacrity following the 2007 death of Neil Aspinall, the long time Beatles confidant who ran Apple Corps, for many years.

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  • He looked a bit like an aging member of a British progressive-rock group.

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  • The margins in the energy drinks segment are so high that although TNT only holds the third position with a bit more than 4% of overall market share, Petropolis Group has announced it will sponsor Scuderia Ferrari Formule One team for the next three years.

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  • The group takes traditional bluegrass and roots-rock and modernizes them with a little bit of British Invasion and even a little bit of punk.

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  • Dr Boyd hopes to move a bit in that direction by making the models of both individual behaviour and group structure more complex.

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  • All of a sudden, Western media decided that this - that that group was a little bit above the tribe, and therefore, they couldn't be ethnic.

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  • We've had a bit of luck along the way but we've worked hard as a group.

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  • He was a bit chagrined because the day before he had given the same lecture to a group of financial analysts, and the moment the meeting let out, nVidia stock dropped like a stone.

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  • "In the law firm industry in New York today, there's a little bit of a seesaw effect, " says Ken Rapp, a broker in CBRE Group Inc.

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  • It felt for one long, loud bit of time like fear and sadness and life had been synthesized into a single massive group experience.

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  • Olson's groping for a case to establish federal jurisdiction over the Florida election was a bit rich, since he is a leading member of the Federalist Society, the conservative group that is highly protective of the rights reserved to the states by the Constitution.

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  • One of the only big corporate share repurchasers that has slowed down a bit appears to be Goldman Sachs Group.

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