• It ain't pretty -- it's written in legalese, and in small type, but that's the point.

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  • Now the studio has a pretty-much-guaranteed blockbuster scheduled for each year through 2014.

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  • But I'm just saying -- I mean, I think his record is pretty -- demonstrates the value he places on diversity.

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  • This is a pretty -- pretty fancy group here, pretty distinguished group.

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  • Simply scheduling an e-mail for future delivery is pretty easy--just a matter of writing it and setting a send date in the future.

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  • There was a pretty -- both then and in the days after -- a pretty strong view on that, and quite frankly, there was before.

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  • Most of the ideas were pretty marginal--like automatic bowling-pin resetters--but in time the pair settled on a winner: an audio oscillator based on one of Hewlett's old college designs.

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  • In "Spore, " players make choices that evolve a creature from single cell--you cover the first 20 million years pretty quickly--to planet-hopping spaceship pilot, all with Pixar-quality cartoon brilliance of critters and landscape.

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  • Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) is--other than they manage their new product launches pretty well--is that not too long ago 40% of their sales were international.

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  • If you ask -- if you just do an intelligence assessment of assets, as I said, a unidimensional assessment of assets, you come to a pretty clear -- you come to a set of conclusions.

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  • The pretty-as-a-video Aussie, who favors low-cut and the occasional bikini tops, posts amusing observational clips on wearing Crocs (1.2 million views), her phony ultrasound (19 million views) and her big winner: how to fake a six-pack (27.6 million views).

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  • Psystar's offer to build off-license OSx86 OpenMac clones was apparently pretty popular -- we saw a note from the company saying it was trying hard to cope with the rush of traffic, but it looks like things got overwhelming, and the site is now unavailable.

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  • You looked around at this flat, beautiful land and all this sun -- I just -- I asked the question, how many days of sun do you get a year -- 320 -- that's pretty good -- and decided that Boulder City was the perfect place to generate solar power.

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  • Also, there's this whole format thing about VC1 and how VC1 has emerged -- that's pretty hardcore -- but our codec's emerged as the highest quality even versus the MPEG-4 stuff which if you'd asked people a year ago they would have said there's no chance of that happening and that's happened in a very big way.

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  • And this is why -- for those of you out there who wonder, well, what's in it for me, I've already got health insurance, I can see why if I didn't have health insurance that I'd want health insurance reform, but I've got health insurance through my job and it's working pretty well -- why do I want health insurance reform?

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  • The 57-year-old said she saw the girl smiling at 18-week-old puppy Rocky, before two bigger Rottweilers - called Fat Boy and Pretty Girl - launched an attack, dragging the girl from her bike into the road and biting her repeatedly.

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  • Many artists are consumed with their creativity -- and pretty soft-headed when it comes to business.

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  • "We have got some very good young and middle-aged players in Josh's position - there are some pretty high-quality guys there, " added Ashton.

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  • With chocolate-box-pretty town squares, hearty Flemish-inspired cuisine and some truly original attractions, the city is an overlooked gem.

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  • From a man who is one of the most peaceable presences I've lately encountered, a gentle giant of a mind, this car is nothing but a weapon: a very large, very Norse, not-all-that-pretty ax meant to be thrown with staggering force at a great distance.

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  • It lumps together investment banking, a high-tech and pretty high-skill business, with estate agents, where knaves with badly written brochures still prosper.

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  • The mission for Moto Guzzi in the near-term is pretty clear-cut: Increase sales in lucrative markets like the U.S. by building bikes with a lot of back story, nuance, charisma, historical resonance, whatever you want to call it, while minimizing the downsides of the legacy-driven design.

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  • Played by 26-year-old British newcomer Ben Barnes as a kind of Mediterranean, pretty-boy Hamlet, the prince escapes a plot by his uncle King Miraz (Sergio Castellitto) -- who has usurped his throne -- and falls in with a rag-tag band of talking badgers, valiant mice, dwarves, minotaurs, griffins and centaurs.

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  • Taking photos and videos in low-light situations has always involved some kind of tradeoff: you can either crank up the ISO and reduce image quality significantly, use something like Sony's NightShot and add that alien green tint to everything, or trust your image stabilizer to go from wacky-blurry to just pretty-blurry.

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  • So expect the adjournment debate led by labour's Nia Griffiths on extending the approved use of low-dose Naltrexone to start pretty rapidly - and for the Commons to shut up shop by early afternoon, unless some other business is added.

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  • Mississippi ranked last, mainly because it excludes medically needy patients, and Idaho came in second-to-last for pretty much the same reason--dinged for lacking a Medicaid fraud unit and for poor nursing home care.

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  • Some elite schools--Columbia, Emory, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford--are pretty circumspect about price-cutting.

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  • Many of you will find all of that pretty odd - and pretty shocking.

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  • But his is a one-note performance - a pretty good note, it must be said - but one note nonetheless.

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