They wanted something a little less smooth.

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Recent relations have been less smooth.

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Winds had put Friday's flight in question, and those conditions made for a less-than-smooth ride for the six-person flight crew on NASA's carrier plane.

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Other features include an "HD" camera, a custom keyboard action for less finger-fatigue, and an enhanced smooth glass trackpad.

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If governments add to their debt burdens today, while the baby boomers are still working, they will have less room to borrow in the future to smooth out the cost of the baby boomers' retirement.

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The body (4) is made of armoured steel and rounded edges and smooth contours are designed to make it less visible on radar.

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Its immense shale-gas potential might make it even less willing to pay up, inclining it to depend less on pipeline gas and to take the risk that it can smooth out ebbs and flows through spot markets.

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The paper notes that year to year swings would be less worrisome since families would presumably be able to borrow or dig into savings to smooth out their living standards.

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The solution has to be more investments on creaky IT infrastructure and less on catering to lucrative high-frequency traders with newfangled products that don't help the smooth functioning of the overall market.

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Measuring in at less than 1, 000-square-feet, the ultra-modern cylindrical boathouse with its rounded entrances and smooth concave walls resembles the cave-like formations for which it was named.

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