But General Sarnoff (or his broadcast-standards minions?) had even less of a sense of humor than current NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt has displayed in the face of Leno's recent jabs.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives this sense of peculiarity as "the ordinary current objective sense".
Plans aired on April 16th to subsidise buyers of electric cars from 2011 make sense, despite the current limitations of that technology.
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Nominal rates would have to rise up to about 6.5% for the trade-off to make sense, given current levels of inflation.
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We understand the political imperative, and these columns have favored liberal (in the 19th-century sense of that word) immigration policies since before the current crop of Republicans was born.
Much of the country's current success was due to the good sense of its recent governments, in particular those of Fernando Henrique Cardoso from 1995 to 2003, which created a stable, predictable macroeconomic environment in which businesses could flourish (though even now the government continues to get in the way of companies trying to earn profits and create jobs).
By the time Tony Clark had concluded his remarks and spoke on behalf of the current members of the union, you got the sense that both he and Executive Director Michael Weiner are constantly educating their constituents on the importance of leadership, solidarity, principles and the history of the Major League Baseball Players Association.
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Underlying much of the discussion was the sense that the current neoliberal economic model which privileges unbridled competition between nations, companies and peoples is not a sustainable path for the future.
As it relates to the behavior of the coaches involved, at least former Trojans and current Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll had the good sense to get out of dodge before the mess landed on his front lawn.
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"It's not just being able to draw it in the virtual reality sense of saying 'here we've reproduced the current world', but to understand the data, to know this is the doorway to a business, this is the path to the stairs... this is a public building, these are private areas, " he says.
Rockstar will not be drawn until after the launch of their current megasequel, Max Payne 3, but a Christmas launch of GTAV makes good commercial sense.
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One of the more tiresome tropes of current times is that speculation is in some sense bad.
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In an environment where assets (stocks and housing) have shrunk over the last decade and consumers in the U.S. and elsewhere are increasing their savings and reducing debt as retirement looms for an aging baby boomer generation, the current policies of stimulus make less and less sense.
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In that sense, he suggests, the current bank cases are anomalous because of their unique magnitude and not necessarily indicative of an invigorated regulator.
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To a lot of people, the current yield on government bonds just makes no sense.
For many of his clients, Kent says, claiming current deductions makes more sense than accumulating passive losses they might not be able to use for years.
He posed for pictures with current Flyers and met with team brass to get a better sense of how it is the orange and black have stirred Flyers fans for decades.
In models where future and current generations care equally about each other, this sort of makes sense.
Given the current dire state of the Conservative Party, it may make some sense to bribe middle-class interest groups, even at the price of broader credibility.
If the Commons were to remain with its current electoral system, and if the devolved assemblies turned out not to be as powerful as is often assumed, then it might well make sense to increase the power of the Lords, adding veto and initiative powers to its current ability only to revise and delay.
The company has long wanted to be a content and search powerhouse, but unless Microsoft can show that it can drive eyeballs to its sites there may be little sense in doubling down the bets, especially given that the current partnership already provides many of the potential synergies between the companies.
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As you might recall, the current Quench is the international version of the CLIQ XT, which makes perfect sense -- the XT is a midrange full-touch Android phone, so as far as we can tell, we're looking at its successor here.
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For the youthful Mr Edwards, then, using the current race to put down a marker for the election beyond makes a lot of sense.
Current municipal traffic monitoring systems study individual stretches of road that use induction loops to sense the passage of cars, or complex camera systems that capture licence plates.
Given our current circumstances, however, much more needs to be done, with a greater sense of urgency, if the US is to make substantial progress against major social challenges.
Given that the costs of solar panels have been falling, total falls of about 70% in fact, since the current FITs were agreed, it makes sense to have a review and possibly a repricing.
In the case of Ecuador, a constitutional reform could have made sense in the framework of political reform aimed at increasing relations between constituencies and elected officials, changing the current system of party-rule (partidocracia) and ensuring that all sectors are properly represented within the system.
My sense of whirling like a dervish in making sense of the schizophrenic identity crisis of Muslims everywhere at this beginning of the 21st century is due to the current condition of the Muslim world.
In choppy markets, with little visibility on future growth in a macro sense, it is worth remembering that many portfolio managers would have to sell at least a piece of a current holding in order to buy a less-proven business in an IPO.
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