Now the neighborhoods became shabbier, and Con and Jerry seemed more conspicuous.
New roads are being built to make cultivation more conspicuous and to encourage farmers to grow other plants, such as olive or almond trees.
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Since the accident the cable has been replaced and conical spiral markers have been added to the cables across the valley to make them more conspicuous.
For a genome of a given size, a binding site will have to be much more conspicuous if it is alone than if it is one of many.
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The distortions in the Gulf states are even more conspicuous.
Next year Harrah's will play a more conspicuous role, moving the event to the Rio, which has conference rooms big enough to handle three times as many spectators and players.
The dedicated mode dial is also more conspicuous -- there's no question that Sony wants to free up controls on the back for the future camera's more experienced target audience.
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Nowhere has this attitude been more conspicuous than in the structuring of U.S. Unified Commands (inter-service military commands) such that responsibility for the continent is divided among the European, Central and Pacific Commands.
My train is chugging up the snow-carpeted mountain to the Alpine resort of Davos, once a refuge for consumptives and now, at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, home-from-home for the world's more conspicuous consumers (bankers, hedge fund managers, private-equity stars, inter alia).
For those who want to combine the secrecy of a spy cam with the flexibility and superior video quality of the Lukwerks system, the company will soon offer its own clock camera, albeit one that looks even more conspicuous than the barely passable Sharper Image unit.
"Sheen feathers may represent an alternative way to become more colourful and conspicuous, " says Dr Galvan.
Yes, there has been a lot of conspicuous consumption in the past decade, but what has been more striking is the quest for the genuine--the handcrafted object, the locally sourced menu, the Vini del Paradiso experience.
Environmental concerns, Ford says, have made people more thoughtful about their purchases, while the recession has led to a decline in conspicuous consumption.
These sorts of conspicuous celebrations of consumption often seem less like life-altering rites, and more like the ultimate consumer experience.
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With the conspicuous lack of a dying format to explain, this has got to be more optimistic than last year's HD DVD funeral, right?
One of the most conspicuous is table tennis player Geng Lijuan, the former world number one from China who has for more than a decade represented Canada.
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