Several such applications would be enabled by high-performance visibly transparent photovoltaic (PV) devices, including building-integrated photovoltaics and integrated PV chargers for portable electronics.

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Maybe it's time (once in a blue moon) for a high-level bipartisan commission--televised and transparent--to review the science, the costs and the regulatory processes, taking into account the national interest.

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He sees Personal Capital providing a transparent, high-quality, mass-customized service for these investors and moving past the paternal, craftsman-like approach of a full-service brokerage or the assembly-line mentality of mutual funds.

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In addition to the full-color transparent AMOLED touch screen, the IceTouch features a high-performance CPU and Samsung's own "TouchWiz Sweep" interface, which is designed to provide a comfortable grip and give users new options for interacting with their player.

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The auto action seems a transparent pitch to sell high-end sports cars and inject a little momentum in a movie that's equally content to dawdle over its morning coffee, shooting the breeze with amusing (or at least semi-amusing) supporting players like Ray's deputies, ornery Mike (Luis Guzman in the Walter Brennan role), bumbling Jerry (Zach Gilford), and sexy Sarah (Jaimie Alexander).

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Instead, a treaty that sets out high-level principles for traditional telecommunications such as competition and open and transparent regulatory process, would foster continued innovation in technologies and services that ride on that underlying telecommunications.

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High-profile arrests are one thing: actually convicting a wrongdoer in a timely and transparent fashion quite another.

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But flotations also force hedge-fund managers to be more transparent, diluting the mystique on which their high fees partly depend.

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