• Flexcube's predecessor was a more primitive "bank in a box" that Citi coders developed.

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  • This was a much more primitive, not-so-well organized group which we disrupted in any case.

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  • L, consists of thousands of special chips that are, in many ways, more primitive versions of Cell.

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  • It is possible that it may not have been a true woolly mammoth - but a more primitive species.

    BBC: Mammoths moved 'out of America'

  • The Dromaeosaur is more primitive than birds, suggesting that feathers developed before flight.

    BBC: Dinosaur was covered in feathers

  • The MyLifeBits software can then help you find that picture in a matter of seconds--faster than the more primitive search programs in use today.

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  • The enthusiasm for aboriginal art has encouraged artists to venture beyond the more primitive style and has turned some of them into well-paid stars.

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  • Google gives away a somewhat more primitive service than Omniture's called Google Analytics, but Google retains its own file of the data people plug into it.

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  • Or perhaps their vanity is of a more primitive sort.

    ECONOMIST: Shocking news: a market that is rejecting standardisation

  • It passed up chances in 1995 to enter the digital market early, sticking with more primitive analog designs, because it felt sure that analog's 43 million customers couldn't be wrong.

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  • The only visible safety measures, at least in the more primitive mines, are frequent offerings of cigarettes and coca leaves to the diablo of the mine, its crudely sculpted guardian demon.

    ECONOMIST: Under the ocean, up in the clouds

  • "This particular dinosaur is a bit more distantly related to birds - it's a more primitive dinosaur... it indicates wings evolved earlier than previously thought, " she told the BBC World Service programme Science in Action.

    BBC: Dinosaur feathers 'developed for courtship'

  • Regulators treat these important products as though they pose uniquely worrisome risks, in spite of a long-standing consensus in the scientific community that the newer techniques are essentially an extension, or refinement, of more primitive ones.

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  • The hieroglyphic qualities and broad brush strokes of two of his masterpieces, "Ancient Script Mandala" (1968) and "Frolicking Birds and Beasts in Yin Script" (1969), are clearly influenced by the more primitive scripts found in bronze castings.

    WSJ: The Vision and Calligraphy of Aoyama San'u | Tokyo National Museum | Transformational Characters | By Michael Judge

  • But as nuclear and missile technology has proliferated in the post-Cold War period, and more technologically primitive countries get their hands on missiles and limited nuclear capabilities, the threat of an EMP attack as become far more acute.

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  • Without these firms, hydrocarbons would largely stay in the ground or locked in the sea-bed, heavy manufacturing would be difficult to impossible, electricity and communications would be more episodic and primitive, and the list goes on.

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  • The most feared and fearsome people in all of southern Africa were by then famous for little more than fierce outbursts of primitive political violence and a certain tourist appeal, which included Shaka Land, a former movie set converted into a theme park and named for their most famous chief.

    NPR: One Boy's Heroism in the Face of AIDS

  • Some Masters of the Universe have such rotten hubris, such selfish, self-aggrandizing drives they act like primitive warriors from a more violent time.

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  • No doubt the thrill of "the heart of darkness" was part of that, but I hope it was more than the lure of the primitive.

    BBC: Following Graham Greene to Liberia's sacred waterfall

  • In places like Syria and southern Iraq that are now being dried out by the Turkish dams, irrigation is primitive - often involving nothing more than water trucks pumping water out of the Euphrates and driving it over to fields that are often less than a kilometer away.

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  • More often, cross-selling involves such primitive techniques as displaying insurance brochures in bank branches.

    ECONOMIST: The trials of megabanks

  • Japan's situation is even worse because its primitive capital markets make businesses far more dependent on bank debt than they are in any other advanced country.

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  • Findings from the second fossil were even more revealing - inside were the preserved remains of two primitive crow-sized birds, called Confuciusorni.

    BBC: Small dinosaur 'hunted like cat'

  • Although a similarly "primitive" construction, the Tangaroa benefited from more recent research on ancient sailing techniques and had a broader sail, adjustable centerboards and a hardwood cabin.

    CNN: The Kon-Tiki: Crossing an ocean on balsa

  • More harshly than Ms Zinovieff, he portrays corrupt doctors, primitive male attitudes to women, and priests who rattle through their prayers.

    ECONOMIST: Athens

  • From Chiang Mai, visitors spend around four hours in a songtaew, a covered truck with two benches in the back, then two more hours in the back of a 4x4 driving up a primitive road.

    BBC: Thailand��s mountainous coffee journey

  • Stem cells are the primitive master cells found in most tissues that help generate more-specialized cells that perform most functions inside the body.

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  • Dr Jakob Vinther, of the University of Bristol, agrees: "The fact they were having a diverse diet of both small and large dinosaurs and primitive birds could suggest that they were not specialist predators but more likely a scavenger - a sort of vulture".

    BBC: Small dinosaur 'hunted like cat'

  • The primitive nuclear device tested by North Korea in 2006 is estimated to weigh more than 1, 500 kilograms (3, 307 pounds).

    CNN: Commentary: North Korean launch not a cause for panic

  • The blog Engadget called the app "fairly primitive, " and The Next Web said it amounts to "nothing more than a parlor trick at this point" since other location-based friend finders haven't caught on with the general public despite their buzziness in tech circles.

    CNN: Facebook quietly unveils 'stalking app'

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