It's an inconvenience if you lose your favorite music player, but when corporations lose an electronic gadget, the stakes can be high.

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There's a twinge of fear, but it's more of an inconvenience for a reporter on deadline because they've all been false alarms until now.

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"It's a major inconvenience to a lot of folks, " said Dennis Keaton, a spokesman for the California Department of Transportation.

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Two-factor can be a hassle to use and will take some getting used to, but it's a small inconvenience to avoid the much larger, more devastating inconvenience of being hacked.

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While it wasn't a huge inconvenience for the feuding couple, it's a nice hook for today's marketing team.

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Kuszczak was called into action after 55 minutes to save from Maloney's curling angled drive, but it was a minor inconvenience to a United side threatening to run riot.

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"It's wonderful not to have to think about glasses and the inconvenience of trying to balance them on my nose, " he said.

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While such a delay would certainly be an inconvenience for frequent shooters, it is a step forward from RIM's traditional strategy of shipping models without cameras altogether.

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Travelers delayed at London's Heathrow airport Thursday morning told NPR that they were willing to endure the inconvenience if it meant making them and other passengers safer.

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