Mr Richardson admits that selling the idea of environmentally-friendly public transport to car-happy New Mexicans was not easy at first.

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Samsung and Apple are still locked in a multi-national copyright war, and its easy to interpret Apple as the unnamed sue-happy other in the spot.

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Mr Strauss-Kahn's easy charm may not be enough to keep them happy when the euro-11 gets going.

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Perhaps in an era of 12 percent average returns, their employees were happy with the easy pretax money, two-point lag or no.

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If Bluetooth hardware gets cheap and the software gets manageable, it's easy to envision happy adventures in cable-cutting.

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Easy-on-ramps for the happy bystanders, calls to action for the folks higher up on the ladder.

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You're happy that it didn't go easy on you -- and that you didn't go easy on it.

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Or was the old-fashioned subscription model always a snare and a delusion, an easy-money honeypot that seduced growth-happy companies into losing sight of their artistic missions?

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We're happy to report that it's easy to read in direct sunlight and isn't too distracting -- ditto the instrument panel.

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