From a sports perspective, it was a nice change to finally have a single sentence that includes the real object of the affections by the labor combatants.

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Still, watching a product like this make the transformation from idea to real world object is about as good a selling point for the technology as we've seen.

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Quit chasing the shiny object and develop a real plan: You seen this happen at many companies, maybe your own.

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"There is an added value for the buyer that comes from having a real interaction with the real human being that created each object, " Etsy spokesman Adam Brown said.

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In the real world, the farther away an object is, the slower it seems to move. (That is why the horizon appears motionless, and is reassuring to look at during a bout of seasickness.) This means that shrinking a virtual scene, which makes it look farther away, also makes it appear to move more slowly.

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The prosthetic hand of the future would also, like a real hand, tighten its grip on an object when it feels that it's about to slip, Loeb said.

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Berkeley, a graduate degree in writing, and years of journalism experience, but, it turned out, my real gift, in this case, was pretending to be an inanimate object that, regardless of the fact that it had no hands or mouth, was able to talk to the world through its Facebook page.

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It is such whiffs of Welsh triumphalism that English-only speakers object to the not-very-subtle implication that the only real Welsh are those who speak the language.

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The danger here is that people whose real objection is to Mr Brown will find a high-minded quasi-constitutional pretext to object to his growing power.

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