• Fair- haired and slight of build, Edward is not so long- limbed as Henry, less angular, and his clean- shaven cheeks are bright with the admissions of one who, despite his ambitions, has actually spent little time out of doors.

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  • To dampen the ill-will that arises when regular faculty began to envy the student-free lives of the academic heroes the wealthier universities have consistently moved toward across-the-board reductions in teaching loads, with not-so-wealthy schools imitating this trend as best they can.

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  • Alan Greenspan's not-so-secret model pegs 8000 as the Dow's fair-market value.

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  • The thick hair - not so long as before - hangs over a narrow forehead, almost touching the shoulders at the back.

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  • The third video gives you an overall look and feel, thanks to the overly enthusiastic, not-so-bright urchin who serves as narrator.

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  • Donny also met his fourth cousin once removed, Jane Cresswell, who admitted that she was not so star-struck as some.

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  • The fact that these authors chose to write these pronouncements as books should begin to tell you that things may not be so world-changing as they make out.

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  • What sets them apart is their ability to think outside of Japanese industry's tried and not-so-true practices, and embrace such ideas such as shareholder value and being customer-driven - the management buzzwords in thriving companies worldwide.

    CNN: THE NEW JAPAN INC.

  • Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's fiscal policies for growth and inflation -- known to many now as Abenomics -- are not to blame so much as financial quakes and questions from the world's other major economies.

    CNN: How can Japan's stock slump actually be "a sign of health"?

  • The problem with most off-the-rack boots is not so much fit as quality.

    FORBES: The Best Handmade Cowboy Boots You Can Buy Right Now

  • But after finding immediate form in the middle having been completely overlooked in the one-day series, the 28-year-old does not mind where he plays, so long as he can get his hands on a sixth Test cap.

    BBC: Jonathan Trott hits century in England warm-up

  • Mr Tandjung argues that Indonesian voters are not so much ill-informed as pragmatic.

    ECONOMIST: The party that backed Suharto remains strong

  • The order of things feels not so much old-fashioned as off kilter, and our apprehensions quicken when Martha steals away, at first light, and heads for a nearby forest.

    NEWYORKER: Family Farm

  • It just--it's so horrifying as to not even--something I don't even want to think about.

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  • The foundations built with industrial money--Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie and so on--are still big but not growing as fast as their info brethren.

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  • It's a not-so-subtle jab: Goliath has the same colors as the University of Oregon, whose athletic programs have been heavily supported by Nike Chairman Philip Knight.

    FORBES: Over the Top

  • The Germans, for their part, had a simpler, not-so-hidden agenda: to set such tough conditions as to make it impossible for Italy, and probably for Spain and Portugal as well, to join the single currency from the start.

    ECONOMIST: Europe's mid-life crisis

  • This leading investment and commercial bank, one of the top two or three in the world on some measures which employs 11, 000 in London, is purchasing the not-so-old former Lehman HQ at 25 Bank Street as its new European investment banking HQ.

    BBC: Slim chance of bank bonus deal

  • For the rest of the United States- which has impressively restructured its economy for the challenges of the productivity-driven information age- the Northeast is not so much unnecessary as it is irrelevant.

    FORBES: Bobby Jindal Seeks Rich State Status With Income Tax Phaseout

  • Yet the real fear is that today's furious price-cutting is not so much real liberalisation as the start of a stitch-up.

    ECONOMIST: Germany��s electrical storm

  • But Roenneberg sees this not so much as a by-product of industrial capitalism as a quirk of human physiology.

    NEWYORKER: Up All Night

  • In Rotherham, data and IT systems were found not to be up-to-date so information on vulnerable children may not have been passed on as quickly as it should be.

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  • Of course, since many of Russia's not-so-needy will receive the new cash payments, further reforms (such as introducing better means-tests) will be needed to improve the targeting of state help to those who most deserve it.

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  • European politics - particularly as they relate to the Middle East - are not informed by rational interests so much as they are defined by attitude.

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  • For the dining room, Wright devised a china-dish pattern and low-back chairs so as not to obstruct views of the gardens.

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  • This is caused by faster assistants slowing down to the speed of the average - so as not to embarrass their slower colleagues - while the "slow ones, stay slow", which has an overall effect of dragging down the speed.

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  • And second, hedge funds are not so off-the-radar as one may think.

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  • Agari, in other words, is pitching itself not as a spam-filtering company so much as a brand-protection firm.

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  • The trade-offs involved in using abstracted data in relational databases versus non-abstracted data in non-relational databases, relying on pre-abstraction versus self-abstraction of high-volume data streams, and so on are not obvious, will change as technology involves, and will depend on the company and the problem.

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  • The snag is that multi-carrier signals do not travel as far as single-carrier ones, so they require the construction of expensive repeater stations.

    ECONOMIST: Power-line technology

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