Lead was first put in gasoline in the 1920s because it was found to make engines run more smoothly.

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Finally, Microsoft will provide technical information to developers of third-party search programs to help them make their offerings run more smoothly.

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Yes that's right, the base metal element lead, Pb, or more exactly the lead-based chemical compound Pb(CH2CH3)4 added to petrol to make car engines run more smoothly.

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"In today's business environment small business owners need technologies they can rely on coupled with a breadth of features to help their business run more smoothly and efficiently, " said Marie Le, Brother Director of Marketing for color inkjet products.

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While you could argue that this MacBook Pro model (released in 2010) is guaranteed to run more smoothly than any three-year-old laptop running Vista, that argument does not hold up when compared to Windows 7 machines released in 2009 and 2010.

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Once that was done, he set to the real work: with hand drills, handsaws (their teeth rubbed, to run more smoothly, with a candle end), his bevelled-edge chisel and his wide, heavy, trusty Number 7 plane, which he used for everything.

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But when you do the place will run much more smoothly and definitely more profitably.

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These communications not only make things run far more smoothly, but have saved me countless hours in ex post facto conflict resolution.

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And while Vista comes with slicker graphics built in, it's also more demanding than XP and needs more horsepower to run smoothly.

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