Yet that failure underlines how clever and successful the rest of the book is.
We show how clever, hip, connected, rich, tasteful we are by having this particular item.
And how clever is an app that lets consumers track their driving habits and daily driving distances to assuage their trepidation about driving a battery-powered car.
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"No matter how clever you are, no matter how hard you try to avoid detection, you underestimate us at your peril, " said SEC Enforcement Director Linda Chatman Thomsen in a statement Thursday.
Ed Massey, project manager for the Voyager mission, points out that no matter how clever and autonomous a probe is, it can only get itself out of situations it has been programmed to cope with.
But then if we really thought bankers were that clever then how could we explain the financial crash?
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If you thought melting gadgets were clever, how about a multiverse-containing metamaterial?
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Inditex is extremely clever in how it uses technology, says Andrew McAfee, a Harvard Business School specialist in the corporate use of information technology.
Someone took a Dr. Seuss book and did a clever mockup showing how he and I could change the world.
Lands' End also provides a good example of how technological development and increasingly clever mathematics are bringing new services to the internet.
But the imaginary system that Stajano lays out over twenty pages includes plenty of clever ideas for how to create such a universal key fob.
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He is clever and knows how to handle this.
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Yet the clever bit here is how it all unfolds.
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How could a great, smart and clever company like Oracle find itself in such a position?
Milliner Polly Singer, however, has a clever rule of thumb about how wide she'll go.
So, they give a pitch about how the Lipper fund managers are very clever, and notice the subtle connections between this and that.
Clever business owners figure out how to sell to their existing customer base by ensuring they have high value adjacent products or services.
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Using clever juxtaposition, Asisi illustrates how Berliners coped with their warped reality, going about their business in the shadow of barbed wire and guards patrolling from watchtowers.
Clever Princess was successfully taught how to use sign language, and was also nearly very successful staging her own escape attempt via a docked canoe.
What is very interesting about this particular idea is that the bottle features a set of three clever dials that allow you to track how many plastic bottles you DID NOT USE!
We guarantee you that no matter what happens, no matter how loud the zombies chant, no matter what clever "revenue enhancers" they come up with, you will get to keep some reasonable fraction of what you earn.
So we should learn how to work and we should not swagger saying that we are clever enough.
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How pleasing it must have been to find in Tony Blair a clever, instinctive politician in the market for some sort of ideology in which to dress up his opportunism.
Someone who is clever to start with is compared with other clever children - so the result does not depend on how well they do in outright terms, but how much they have improved, whatever their ability.
In a move both clever and magnanimous, the photo sharing service has figured out how to use their own user database to allow Instagram images to be easily shared on Twitter.
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To understand what is so clever about Transmeta's idea, it is necessary to recall how today's chips work.
All well and good: these are sophisticated banks which know how to calculate the odds on risk and reward, and this is a clever way for regulators to monitor them.
Many firms are doing clever things: sending their product designers to visit factories to figure out how to make a new product as efficiently as possible, working out which customers are the most profitable and focusing on them, and so on.
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