However, the routes often have superficial differences, and Dash's slow cellular connection can require more time before starting the route than competitive devices.

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Provided a U.S. official can pass routine (often quite superficial) security clearances before taking up his appointment, he is unlikely to be found out.

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This number is exceedingly small, and shows that the superficial features, which we often think of as defining human ethnic groups, are literally only skin deep.

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They also travelled to relatively prosperous communities - Salisbury and Trowbridge - and recorded how "high levels of superficial civility... often hid deeper, covert incivilities" such as domestic violence, racism and prejudice against younger residents.

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Absent even one of these fundamentals, and the place eventually languishes. (This is why, Kotkin says, superficial efforts to create faddish commercial attractions without an underlying organic community often disappoint.) So, making the trains run on time is but one basic requirement.

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Washing does not involve a superficial flick of the flannel, but a vigorous all-over scrub, often with an extremely rough nylon towel.

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