Even the company's well-meaning initiative to save the world from coal-fired power plants got tossed.
An upcoming stunt puts well-meaning citizens of the social-media world in a quandary: Do they want to assist a worthy charity, or do they want celebrity tweeters to sit quietly and stop yammering for a little while?
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But two muffed fly balls by Wilson in center field--this was long before night World Series games, meaning that late-afternoon sun could be a big factor--contributed to a furious A's rally that didn't let up until 10 runs had crossed the plate.
This 1955 novel, critics agree, distilled the experience of a generation, laying bare its hollow quest for meaning and purpose in the post-World War Two world of corporate business.
The dangerous confusion is, as so often in well-meaning economic rule-making, one of mistaking an ideal-utopian labor world (where even unskilled workers make a decent living from the get-go) with the world as it is: one where the value-creation of labor, not utopian ideals, sets the price.
Guild Wars 2 is a one-time purchase, meaning that unlike World of Warcraft, players can buy the game and never spend another penny on monthly fees.
Given that words like brand and globalisation are now highly controversial, and that wine is a product loaded with cultural meaning for the French, the new-world lot are bracing for a protectionist backlash.
After that it becomes very human and pleasantly complicated as they start redefining for themselves terms which used to hold a single meaning in a 9-to-5 world, but now mean for each one of them something unique.
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Seven-time world champion Schumacher was also third fastest in the morning, meaning the 41-year-old outperformed his younger teammate Nico Rosberg in both practice sessions for the first time in his comeback season.
The bigger worry for the zombie world is that well-meaning budget cutters might actually succeed in cutting zombies off from their food supplies.
President Obama must lead the nation and the world by resisting the well-meaning but short sighted calls to regulate the Internet.
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This weekend's set to be a hot one around the country, meaning make-up won't be long for this world once you've left the house or hotel room.
On the flipside, football fans will be happy to hear the Chancellor's news that duty on a pint of some beers will be cut - meaning 14p off per pint in time for the World Cup.
Here meaning running family-controlled JBS S.A., the world's largest meat producer, ranked 766 in The Global 2000 list of the world's biggest companies.
It is galling to Mr. Guest that many well-meaning people are more invested in promoting ideas like Third World microcredit than in clamoring for easier immigration.
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
No single customer represented more than 10% of those sales--meaning Merck could well be the largest consumer of DNA chips in the world.
They don't need to be dressed up in a vision of some shining new world order that lives mainly in Mr Blair's well-meaning imagination.
Twitter followed suit: Its private accounts are rare, meaning Twitter's fire-hose of updates is becoming an invaluable stream of the world's consciousness (incidentally, this month saw that stream licensed to both Microsoft and Google to bolster their search efforts).
It's a tri-band GSM phone, meaning it should work on networks pretty much anywhere in the world, including the U.S., Europe and much of Asia.
The 53-year-old's position had been in doubt after the Scots failed to qualify for the World Cup finals, with the 1-0 defeat by the Netherlands meaning that even a playoff place was not possible.
Taylor, Berlin was a consummate telly-don, always available for a word-perfect interview in grainy black-and-white with Bernard Levin or Bryan Magee on the meaning of life or the way of the world.
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Its vast current-account deficit has started to shrink, meaning that America is no longer pulling along the rest of the world.
On Wednesday he announced his vision to see the world's first "Ultra Low Emission Zone", meaning by 2020 only zero or low-emission cars would be allowed into central London.
Torres has scored 18 goals in 22 league games for Liverpool this season but will miss the rest of the campaign after having surgery on a knee injury, meaning the 26-year-old faces a race to be fit for Spain's opening game in the World Cup against Switzerland on June 16.
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