However, it was the iPad mini which was the main course, the only product that was really new - if you count becoming smaller as a real leap forward.
It consists of eight interwoven vignettes on the theme of romantic fantasy -- nine, actually, if you count a budding relationship between two young movie stand-ins who, buck-naked on an undressed set, chat long and earnestly while they're simulating sex.
Since the dawn of econometric forecasting, there have been six recessions (or seven if you count the double-dip 80-82 recession as two).
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The gaol closed in 1924, and is now Europe's largest unoccupied building of its kind -- if you do not count the ghosts of former inmates and wardens.
She is expected to keep her position as vice chair of the House GOP Conference, the fifth-ranking position if you count the speaker at the top.
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Even so, if anything in my routine is out of whack -- if I don't eat often enough, or if I become overly stressed -- I can count on one or two days of misery.
The whole point of the research credit--to stimulate more research--is undermined if executives can't count on it in their planning.
There are no 800-thread-count sheets, no Michelin-starred restaurants along the way (even if most hikers seem able to afford such luxuries).
One modest dwelling on the edge of Koreatown has as many Roman statues in the garden as a medium-sized Italian city, if plastic ones count.
All in all, CES was a success, if you don't count the 14-year-old who went home and tried out the asteroid staring on his little brother.
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The count would change if the low-budget Minnesota Twins, two games out of first place, knock off the Detroit Tigers (fifth-highest payroll) in the American League Central.
Asked at the start of the test, if would-be motorists flunk the questions it will count as one driving fault out of the maximum of 15 allowed before a fail.
The probability of a tie (or, if the voter count is odd, a one-vote margin) would be the probability that when you flip a coin 5.2 million times you get exactly 2.6 million heads and 2.6 million tails.
The resort, whose 15 tents each measure some 600 square feet (1, 000 if you count the sundeck) under a 13-foot ceiling, was the brainchild of superstar landscape architect Bill Bensley, who wanted to bring the great camps of Botswana to the remote elephant-filled jungle of Thailand and offer even better service.
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The calories in a gooey cookie don't count if it's called a Nutri-Grain cereal bar.
The large-phone craze is rocking the world like a hurricane, and LG is no stranger to this trend: within the last year, the Korean manufacturer has launched two big-screened smartphones as Optimus Vus (three if you count the LG Intuition on Verizon) to mediocre fanfare worldwide.
That could allow Edwards or Obama supporters to play a role in candidate selection -- if the national party changes its mind and decides to count Michigan's delegates.
That's when New Orleans will turn 300 years old, or if you start over and count time forward from the storm -- as so many in this region were forced to do -- it will be in its 13th year of renewal.
But if you have a five-year horizon, you can't count on the next five years being great.
But rights-abusing governments cannot count on hiding the truth even if they manage to keep observers out.
And there was Veoh and Amazon, and, of course, you have to count YouTube if factoring in anything that can be video-streamed.
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He and the rest of the opposition claim that the vote-count was also rigged though, even if true, this may not have affected the result, so thumping was Mr Rajapaksa's margin.
He adds that if the company can maintain leverage in the 2x-3x range, share count could shrink by over 25% by 2015, and by over half by 2020.
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Sylvester called everyone back into the courtroom, apologized to the man -- Steve Hernandez -- for the loss of daughter Rebecca Wingo and asked if he could count on no similar episodes from Hernandez in the future.
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The biggest share of government benefits, meanwhile, goes to the elderly, in the form of Medicare and Social Security. (If you count tax breaks for mortgages and health insurance as government hand-outs, the rich are big spongers.) Only 13% of households receive food stamps, and only 5% benefit from public housing.
If you open a read-on post in a new window, that will also count against the read-on meter.
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And while the Colorado decision was not nearly as close, Kennedy's position rattled many pro-choice advocates, who have come to count on him as a dependable if somewhat unenthusiastic defender of abortion rights.
And the recent special election in New York's 20th Congressional District in which Democrat Scott Murphy initially trailed by more than 20 points -- but wound up slightly ahead before officials count absentee ballots -- shows that the GOP is making few, if any gains among voters.
No consumer would engage with e-commerce on the web if those systems were as hackable and open to abuse as those that count our votes.
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