Mobile devices offer entertainment with a single touch, but researchers speculate that may leave some feeling even more bored when they aren't plugged in.
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And they provide a more unique option for shoppers bored with ubiquitous midsize cars like the Audi A4 or BMW 3-Series.
Is stock picking nothing more than a hobby for bored upper-class men?
But they really gained momentum in the mid-1990s, according to Las Vegas Hilton Vice President Jay Kornegay, following a string of one-sided Super Bowls that had bored fans looking for more action.
But the skills they have honed there are often different from the skills required for classical espionage and many are frankly bored when they return to more routine work where Kevlar and a personal weapon are not required equipment.
"No, " was the emphatic answer from several refugees I spoke to who had been at the camp for more than a month and who, while bored and saddened by their plight, placed greater emphasis on the security, free food and education offered at Dadaab.
He comes into the office little more than once a week and he often looks bored and irritated when shown on television dealing with mundane tasks.
Showcasing Moto's commitment to music, the company brought along its own dance floor and a couple of bored looking dancing girls and an even more relaxed DJ.
You see, although many Americans, and more so, our opinion molding institutions have become bored with freedom, much of the world is falling in love with it for the first time.
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Bands burn more brightly, but more briefly: they become over-exposed, and people get bored.
Brain drains are usually a bad thing, but the latest exodus of veterans may make more of a contribution to Google than they would have if they were rich and bored inside the company.
Thanks to the Thames Online mesh networking system, bored children and internet addicts alike can disregard the beauty around them and focus more on things that truly matter, as the service stretches 22-kilometers (about 12.5-miles) along the banks from Millbank near the Houses of Parliament to the Millennium Dome in Greenwich.
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The arguments for grouping, streaming and setting are that children will learn more and be more interested if lessons are pitched at the right level for them and that they will be bored and possibly disruptive if they are not.
Seeing the children bored with opening too many gifts and wandering away before finished, reinforced that less was more.
Even if they were bored and distracted, though, at least the kids actually showed up, which is more than I could say for the grown-ups.
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