Some are due to faulty readers, some are problems with the auto-complete feature Transport for London (TfL) can turn on at busy stations like Covent Garden, or sometime it's plain old user error.
Which is to say, it's pretty plain-Jane, with a matte, scratch- and finger-print resistant gray back.
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News Corp. and EchoStar may have a sea of acrimony between them, but it's business plain and simple that'll keep these two players apart.
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And they performed a "WIGGLE" test. (I know you will find this hard to believe, but that is NOT an acronym for Wire Integration Gross Gyration Looseness Exam -- it's just a plain old wiggle test.) In any case, the wires all checked out -- and on went the flow toward a January 19 launch.
That being the case, it's essential that the Obama Treasury make plain to the markets that it means what it says about a strong dollar being in the nation's interest, and that it will intervene to bolster the greenback's value if traders won't.
"I think it's smart, just plain smart, " says Gene DeWitt, president of media buyer and consultancy DeWitt Media Strategies.
And while Dell's year-long accounting probe makes it plain that the company was struggling to meet investor's sky-high expectations, (see: "Dell: Cooked Books and Computers") the company remains in robust financial health, even as rivals Hewlett-Packard and Apple continue to tear off fresh chunks of the PC market at Dell's expense.
Lord Bingham, and one of the Law Lords in the first panel who sided with General Pinochet, considered the retrospectivity argument briefly, and then rejected it because the plain language of Britain's 1989 Extradition Act seems explicitly to rule it out.
But it's hard to match a plain woman, even if she's wealthy and charming.
In doing so the computer and gadget maker made it plain that it's about to overhaul its iPhone lineup.
It's decadent enough to be served plain, with a drizzle of olive oil and sea salt.
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It has become plain that Russia's financial woes could last for many years.
Conservative principles had somehow been "lost, distorted or just plain hijacked and it's time to seize them back".
"It's really more than just a plain media story, " said Mallary Tenore, associate editor at Poynter.org, the website at the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit school for journalists.
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"It's something that is hiding in plain sight, " says Brancati.
But when some of his employees started recruiting on a university campus, the students' parents complained furiously and the government took their side, making it plain that Mr Smith's firm had crossed an invisible line.
The television networks are too full of people tearfully evoking memories of maternal or paternal neglect or misunderstanding, not to make it plain that being somebody's parent is not an occupation to fail at lightly.
Look, Moblin and MIDs and USB 3.0 are all well and good, but the real highlight of IDF is hiding in plain sight: it's Intel's CE 3100 Media Processor-based Tru2way DVR server, which has three digital cable tuners that can be streamed over a regular gigabit Ethernet or MoCA to any number of clients, ranging from other 3100-based set-top boxes to DLNA devices like laptops and even the PS3.
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Not quite, the Lumia 900 has its strengths, coming mainly in the form of optics, but it's the overall package and performance that's simply too plain, too ordinary, too dependable to merit the haughty flagship halo it aspires to emanate.
Harmony's aim in bidding for Gold Fields is plain enough: it wants to get its hands on more of South Africa's gold deposits despite the rising cost of producing the stuff there.
And U.S.-born Hispanics see it as plain as day.
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Its lobby in Europe is much exercised by recent statements of Muwafaq al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser, who makes it plain he wants the camp disbanded and its people sent abroad, mostly to Iran, whose rulers have become more vociferous in calling its fellow reigning Shias in Baghdad to send them back.
Just like him, it was very well coordinated, the plain polo's with patterned shoulders to match the pants looked particularly good.
Sir Peter is careful to keep Henry's evangelical enthusiasm in plain sight, though it is hard not to conclude that profits were the sharper spur.
At Whole Foods a noodle isn't just wheat and water in a plain package--it is the life's work of an Italian "authentic food artisan" named Gino Girolomoni.
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