Witness Tanzania, where three providers tend to offer gimmicks rather than real discounts.
Or even if they are knowingly wearing fake rather than real Gucci sunglasses.
Most review sites are engines of social indifference and the net results are based on controversy and business interest rather than real reviews.
They said they felt they got cookie-cutter treatment, with slides pasted from used PowerPoint presentations and work handled by junior analysts rather than real personal service.
Gleick was frustrated at having to defend his science from jabs taken from behind a blind by people he suspected were simply paid mercenaries rather than real scientists.
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Some of the decisions at the games still suggest that there are those who still see the Paralympics in the way that it was originally conceived - as moral-boosting therapy rather than real sport.
When managers managed with a spreadsheet rather than real-world knowledge about what was actually going on in the factory and what were its possibilities, they overlooked hidden costs of the erosion of skills, the loss of quality and constraints on innovation.
When managers manage with a spreadsheet rather than real-world knowledge about what is actually going on in the factory and what were its possibilities, they overlook hidden costs of the erosion of skills, the loss of quality and constraints on innovation.
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Labour joined with Conservative rebels on Wednesday to defeat the government by urging David Cameron to push for a real-terms cut in the EU's 2014-2020 budget in future negotiations, rather than a real-terms freeze.
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Drivers initially tend to stare at the infra-red image, rather than the real road.
Rather than buying real estate, lumber or diamonds, central banks around the world are buying gold.
Although it spends plenty on research, Danisco is concentrating on developing new uses for existing products, rather than on real innovations.
The danger of this, of course, is that the organization tends to pursue the numbers themselves rather than actual real life results.
The device pretends to be a base station so that your mobile attempts to contact with it rather than the real tower.
Instead, this is a storybook come to live, beautiful and bold but like a living painting rather than a real-world incarnation of the world.
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New Labour saw the countryside as a "rural version of the Dome rather than a real place where real people work and live" he added.
Really, rather than a real estate holder, think of the firm as a financing firm focused on real estate, which allows its clients to free up capital for other business uses.
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The decision by Paul Ryan to produce an ideological extremist budget document rather than a real legislative negotiating position is eccentric, but it actually deserves a response and not just criticism.
But the problem, according to those campaigning for change, begins at school with ICT - a subject seen by its detractors as teaching clerical skills rather than any real understanding of computing.
Japan, which has local police forces rather than a real national one and is hesitant, for historical reasons, about interfering with religious groups, may be the only industrial democracy where a sect like Aum Shinrikyo could have gathered so much destructive power.
Just as people got used to booking their own flights, rather than using a travel agent, he thinks more and more consumers will use the Internet to buy and sell homes, rather than a real estate broker -- especially if it saves them commission money.
All of that means that GPS Spy and TapSnake is more akin to Flexispy for iPhone and BlackBerry, a paid app designed for spying on suspected cheating spouses or other personal relations, rather than a real example of malicious crimeware as was revealed last week in the Android market.
Rather than reinvent the real world, designers might try to refine the new conventions and metaphors of technology itself.
The lesson: Hyneman said such contraptions are more about moving energy around to confuse, rather than doing any real work.
Most impressively, the profit gains come mainly from pulling more people into every store rather than adding expensive real estate.
To have continued with the RPI would in effect be to carry on making benefits more generous, rather than retaining their real value.
Because rather than getting a real stake in the social networking giant, it looks like purchasing the stock will at best be the equivalent of being a peasant in Farmville.
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But they served to further obfuscate, rather than clarify, his real agenda.
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Of course, though mostly out of practicality or anxiety, or a combination of both, rather than out of any real desire to do something else.
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