Unfortunately, whether an industry actually emerges depends less on rocket science and more on the dull-but-crucial problem of the regulatory costs imposed by government.
But she's just a little bit on the dull side.
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The car caused a sensation, even though it was built on the chassis of the dull and dowdy Ford Falcon.
These early tools closely resembled the knives we use today, consisting of a piece of metal that was sharp on one end--the blade--and dull on the other--the tang.
The man who said in 1994: "I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose, " lit-up the dull 2001 general election by, well, punching a man on the chin.
His praise is lavished on the good and great and the dull and pretentious alike.
On the surface, Millat seems like a pretty dull story: With all of the news coming out of Pakistan, I flew for 26 hours to report on a publicly-traded tractor company.
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Once it was on the ground, the moon was a pockmarked, sandy boulder, so dull and opaque that it was incredible to think that it had once illuminated the sky with its shining reflection.
Watch any ski race on television and you will hear the same dull, persistent background clanging.
According to Clara, from that day on nothing was the same, in spite of the reconciliation, in spite of their trip to a town on the coast, a rather sad and dull trip, as it turned out.
When stripped to its bare essentials, the game is straightforward and might rapidly grow dull, yet millions of players have been active on the site for 10 years or more.
Some of them were gazing with dull avarice at the store on the other side of the road, the Ideal Traders Ice Cream Parlor, where fat kids in T-shirts were licking vanilla cones.
But on page 5, next to a dull column on President Ulysses S. Grant's address to the Congress of the United States, was a headline, loss of the deutschland.
There's always the blowhard at the Oscars party rolling his eyes, delivering a dull indictment of celebrity culture and yammering on about not having seen any of the films (all while hogging the artichoke dip).
It's midmorning when we leave, cool and sunny, the only noise the dull, rhythmic thudding of hooves on dirt.
Published immediately after September 11, 2001, the cover depicts the Twin Towers as rich black silhouettes on a dull black background.
They now offer cars that are just as reliable but far more exciting than the rather dull vehicles Toyota has concentrated on producing in ever-larger numbers.
Thank you for nulling out the dull statistical information that everyone seems to thrive on and so much of that out there today.
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Italian and Spanish bond yields jumped by 12 basis points as spreads widened and the dull toothache of the sovereign debt crisis wore on.
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His biography on his own website goes on to boast of the lead he has taken in sensible but dull organisations such as the European Movement and the electoral reform group Make Votes Count.
Belgians tend to think of the Dutch as loud, dull and rather too keen on money.
Because flashy, dominant males tend to mate with disproportionately more females than dull, unassuming ones it makes sense to focus on bringing the best sons to the peak of perfection with a hormone injection that makes them look even flashier than their genes alone would allow.
What used to be a prestigious career now looks dull: bright young Italians now set their sights on jobs in the big international investment banks.
Perhaps more worrying to the monarch, coffee threatened to stimulate ideas that alcohol could be counted on to dull.
India's prolific domestic cricket is played on dull, flat tracks, which make most of its batsmen vulnerable to the moving ball and bouncy pitches overseas.
According to Brooks, in the short term the first places we will see this next generation of intelligent, collaborative and trainable robot like Baxter, is on production lines where robots will be used by factory floor workers to do the truly dull and repetitive jobs, freeing up those workers to do tasks that require more dexterity and judgment.
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For years, dietetic candy tasted as though it had been designed as a torture device by the Swiss Chocolate Police: dry, dull and about as exciting as chewing on bark.
Everybody knows this, and yet, every year, Hollywood churns out the regurgitations, preying on the success of popular originals, and usually earning enough scratch to justify contrived scripts, dull direction, and bored actors wandering aimlessly for box office points.
Retirement can be awfully dull, and there is no guarantee that the grim reaper will make it on time.
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To be honest, no matter how many products you brand with the letter i, the Web can be a pretty dull place to be if you're surfing on an Apple.
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