But listening to the pre-summit rhetoric from the German side, you wonder whether two more days talking would make much difference.

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Turn on the system, and the speaker automatically tilts out to pre-set angles to direct the sound for optimal listening.

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During the pre-Walkman era, we had a simple means of finding out what our friends were listening to.

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