That's hardly what technologist Negroponte had in mind when he started dreaming about putting laptops in the hands of every child in the world.
It would be so much better if it was a board that had hardly any shareholders so that when somebody suggested that they could save the shareholders some money by accelerating the dividend, they would have been more focused on important things like figuring how that would affect bonus computations.
Hardly had the confetti from the celebrations settled when she returned to the airwaves to promote her candidacy for November's election.
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Even on Saturday, when Keane had been suckered into a red card by Jason McAteer - hardly the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to the game's black arts - Ferguson's first instinct was a defensive one.
If 2012 resembles 1986 as a banner year for capital gains, then 2013 will look a lot like 1987, when there were hardly any to be had.
So in 1999, when the impressive 1990s bull market was in full swing, investors hardly noticed when the Glass Steagall Act (which had separated financial institutions since the 1930s to prevent banks from getting into brokerage and trading activities) was repealed.
A. When we invested in Facebook, they hardly had any revenue.
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This is hardly what Strobe Talbott, America's deputy secretary of state, had in mind when he recently called for Turkey's generals to get out of politics.
VMware (nyse: VMW - news - people ) had hardly finished announcing that its chief executive, Diane Greene, was stepping down when the company pulled references to the co-founder off its Web site and put up the bio of its incoming chief executive, Paul Maritz.
They could hardly have had longer to keep Tottenham at bay after taking the lead with their first attack of the afternoon when the impressive Milijas curled in a free-kick and Doyle glanced the ball in.
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