Now a fondly compiled compendium of the nebulous world's facts and fancies redresses the balance.

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In policy terms, the run-off is a battle between Mr Menem's glitzy conservatism and Mr Kirchner's nebulous social democracy.

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Ativ S is slightly more nebulous, although that very familiar oversized S raises the possibility of a high-end Windows Phone 8 smartphone like the Odyssey.

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Thanks to that, Google Ventures invests in between 50 to 100 salient startups annually, with a definition of "success" only somewhat less nebulous than the organization's founding principles.

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Just as important, Mr Nader's appeal to them points up a nebulous but profound problem facing the vice-president: after two terms, a party's most active, and often most extreme, supporters become harder to enthuse.

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Mr. Minsky's job there was nebulous, he says today.

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Their concern is that - whether justified or not, whether sensible or not - the SNP are offering precise, measurable benefits while Labour's offer is still somewhat nebulous.

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The more nebulous prospect of tax reform may slide off the government's agenda entirely.

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But that ignores two key factors - the weight that Johnson's views carry in athletics, and how important the nebulous notion of respect is to Campbell.

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