The boy-short-style bikini bottom, which has been popular in recent years, "makes your legs look shorter, " she says, adding that it is a look that tends to work best for tall women with more athletic bodies, since the cut of the bottom draws attention to the wearer's upper thigh.

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The bottom line: The Groupon idea is popular among consumers now, but it has its caveats.

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But the bottom line is that football, at all levels, has never been more popular.

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Sales of mobile processors that power popular devices such as Apple's iPhones and Samsung's own Galaxy smartphones boosted the bottom line.

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For example, a search for "30 Rock, " the name of a popular TV series, will bring up a section called "Actor searches for 30 Rock" at the bottom of the search-results page.

WSJ: Google Gives Search a Refresh

While featuring the same keyboard arrangement and operating style made popular by previous ClassPad calculators, the fx-CP400 is also fitted with keys that slope down from bottom to top, which helps prevent input errors when pressing vertically arranged keys.

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So popular, in fact, that the market's red chip index has rocketed over 80% since hitting bottom in mid-January, compared to the blue-chip Hang Seng Index's 40% gain over the same period.

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