It was us, not these shiny new hires, who had rebuilt the company.
The British Museum has been a place of pilgrimage for Perry since he was a child -- though he admits to a sense of disappointment on his first visit, because the model boats in the Egyptian collection were not as shiny and new as the cars he played with at home.
They are entitled to subsidies, state jobs, land grants, and free university education, the latter part of an effort to reinvest gas wealth in human capital, not just in shiny buildings.
By technology here we do not mean just shiny electronic gewgaws: we mean all of the new knowledge that pours into the world each year about how we can do things better.
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The fear was that the English Baccalaureate certificate with its 'more challenging' tag, with its big bang end of year exam would mean universities and employers outside Wales regarded a qualification gained in Wales, in future, as not quite as shiny as the gold standard EBacc.
The Polish border with Belarus is not just marked by shiny new border posts, but also places like the beautiful, dense and extensive Bialowieska Forest.
Instead, out comes a synthetic gaseous fuel and a lump of shiny rock, not unlike volcanic glass, with toxins locked up inside in relative safety.
When having a casual chat with someone wearing Glass, it can take effort to not stare directly at the shiny gadget instead of into the person's eyes.
People excited by anything new and shiny, whether or not the understand it.
We know this not only by the strange, shiny grey appearance of the sandstone - caused by centuries of polishing by human skin - but also by the fluent lines of Aboriginal art on the overhanging rock face beside me.
Inside the brightly lit offices, you'll find not rows of sewing machines but banks of shiny desktop computers.
An underwriter is responsible for making sure that shiny loan is shiny all the way through, not just on the outside.
Until recently Turkey was boasting not of its EU aspirations but of its shiny new alliances in the Middle East, where its secular free-market democracy is a model for some.
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Not that suspicion of copywriting is exactly a bright and shiny new sentiment.
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Although the bank's shiny new Manhattan building is a landmark, Lewis does not seek to make the New York social scene, preferring weekends hiking and reading in his Blue Ridge Mountains retreat.
We know the changes might not be huge in Microsoft's upcoming OS, but it's shiny and it's fresh, so get on that.
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So Rich and I are flying in his shiny, new high-tech airplane, which comes complete with not only XM satellite radio, but (wow, does this company know its market, or what?) a remote control to operate it.
In the mad dash for social media excellence, we jump at the next new shiny object or get talking into spending valuable budget on something we yet do not understand.
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While e-mail once seemed to be the shiny new frontier of marketing, companies must now dodge plenty of landmines, not the least of which is the potential of having their brand besmirched by being associated with spam.
It is not a lack of interest in new cars that prevents battered old vehicles from being replaced with shiny new ones.
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Rajaratnam sat not with his lawyers but, rather, on a bench behind the defense table, the shiny wave of his hair almost touching his hunched shoulders.
Mr. Market, not really understanding technology, thinks the only way for Apple to succeed is to release a new shiny gadget every 1-2 years.
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Dubai prides itself on its shiny image, something that the city has spent the last decade perfecting and it is not about to let all that hard work go to waste, global recession or not.
Labour may not do anything like this well nationally on May 6th because many voters now clearly distinguish between Mr Blair's shiny New Labour government and the Old Labour hacks who run many local councils.
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