New proprietary design with pass though buttons allows effortless access to key phone features like volume and mute switches.

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It was only when the design was able to pass strict enterprise-grade Zero Error standard of 400 units surviving 500 hours of the toughest continuous testing without a single error or failure that the drive was manufactured.

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In turn, the design of many tax expenditures could not possibly pass Congress if presented as explicit spending legislation.

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And later there was a follow-up memo among themselves, these executives, and in black and white it says: we elect to not pass this information down to the divisions that were actually involved in the design.

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Despite all the design efforts, many of these so-called pillows didn't pass muster.

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These include the increasingly popular 3.5mm pass-through jack (so friends can plug in and share your music), a collapsible design, a detachable part-coiled cable and in-line remote.

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