Yet each comes off a piker when compared to the true master of industrial clairvoyance, Jules Verne.

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Ellen Sabin is a piker in publishing--she has no agent, no big-name publisher and no experience writing books.

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He had hoped to go toOhio State but ended up at Miami of Ohio, a piker by comparison.

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She's bored with a piker like Intel.

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Zuckerman is no piker.

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