The amount of ink spilled on the subject has been voluminous.

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Wilson, his son, takes a summer job at a scandal rag, where no amount of ink on his sleeves lives down the day he arrives at work wearing his bowed dancing shoes from debutante balls on the ritzy North Shore.

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The IMF raised its estimate of the amount of red ink that financial institutions will spill as a result of the crisis.

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As the amount of red ink has grown steadily larger, the suggested time frames to restore balance have gotten increasingly longer, while the suggested cuts in government spending have gotten increasingly shallower.

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Indeed, E Ink has identified 700 types of products that could use its technology, including power tools (which could show the amount of power remaining) and car key readers (which could report such details as the amount of gas left in a car and the vehicle's location in a parking lot).

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