But is there more to the timing of the thing than meets the eye?
One is that it's kind of the nature of the timing of the thing.
We got a quick demo of the thing via an iPhone, and it sounded nice and loud.
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There's a video of the thing in action below, and you'll be sorry if you miss it.
"It's not in the spirit of the thing, " said Kevin Button of Ashford, in Kent, just outside London.
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The genius of the thing is that these stunning, multifaceted ceilings can then be installed by ordinarily diligent workmen.
The train wreck potential of the thing is simply too great to ignore.
For a moment, the beauty of the thing hit Kendall with full force.
But for him, what these models evoke is the nut of the thing.
When something is fundamentally wrong with a thing, then one should go back to the fundamentals of the thing.
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But once the Vanquish is rolling and the road opens up, the sheer, horsey power of the thing is a joy.
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On the other hand, the economics of the thing still feel half-baked.
"The beauty of the thing is that if it can be fully optimized and validated, being small you can carry it, " Ogutu says.
"It's not in the spirit of the thing, " said Kevin Button of Ashford, in southeastern England, who had watched parts of the matches on television.
Others, however, claim that it is the PRINCIPLE of the thing.
Ms. COLLINS: Well, it's such an amazing adventure, really, to be - I think everybody needs to have music in their lives, and part of the thing I think about my traveling.
Pioneer has been showing off versions of its AR HUD for some time now, but here at CEATEC 2012 the company is showing off a production version of the thing.
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Rapture was the doomed masterwork of a visionary businessman named Andrew Ryan, who was technically more an Objectivist than a libertarian, but quibbling over labels just sucks the fun out of the thing.
We've received official word from the good folks at Sprint that the Treo Pro wasn't supposed to be posted today, hence the unceremonious removal of every last trace of the thing within hours of its unveiling.
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That's the beauty of the thing.
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History has shown that wars on nebulous enemies like poverty or stagnation do not end with victory, but with capitulation, because the means which government employs for fighting such wars actually create more of the thing the government is fighting against.
The potential is enormous, but governments will need committed leadership, a full understanding of e-business principles and a clear strategy for overcoming the barriers to change: the departmental rivalries, the hostility of unions, the fears of individuals and the sheer size of the thing.
No word on when or if the thing might make it into actual production, but we can say for sure that there's a second picture of the thing just waiting for you right after the break, still in that same garage that is far, far neater than ours.
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And what he's threatening to do, really the implicit threat, is that they would split the companies into two so that the safe portion, the municipal bond portion, would be one company, and the troubled portion would be another company, and of course the minute that happens, those troubled companies are basically doomed because it's the municipal bond part of the thing that's holding the whole apparatus up.
The fact that these monumental technocratic advantages produce so little in the way of actual investing advantages is merely the cherry on top of the whole thing, the enormous contextual joke that makes the whole insufferable enterprise so endearing, the hapless geniuses at the center of it so adorable.
There's a lot of leather to be found and high-quality materials abound, but the focal point of the whole thing is the 17-inch touchscreen wedged in vertically where you'd expect a car stereo and climate controls to be.
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Even some of his allies among the Governors caught a glimpse of the conflict, the flattery and fear of the whole thing.
Even leaving aside the nasty suggestiveness of the whole thing, there remains the irreconcilable contradiction between the crude realism of real machinery (of American make) combined with an abstractly treated figure.
Yet conspicuously absent from Mr. Osborne's bleak assessment of the U.K.'s prospects was any mention of the one thing that has dominated the policy debate for the past year: the fear the economy is turning Japanese, weighed down by so much bad debt that it is incapable of moving forward.
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