It sparkles from a world-beating technological breakthrough, then shatters when its market hits a bump.

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Whatever fantasy you may have harbored about a mobile display in the past, this screen shatters it.

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These three principles should protect shareholders from surprise shocks whenever jolting news shatters the stock market, says Auer.

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The first stage begins when some unexpected event shatters an overdone psychological environment.

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Instead, after his last at-bat, he runs into the dugout, down the stairs and shatters his bat against the wall.

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At worst it shatters the illusion of being some assassin master.

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But the damage could be much greater, if the affair shatters Goldman's fragile reputation, weakened as it has been by all the negative publicity of recent months.

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This machine shatters tiny amounts of a sample into its component atoms, ionises those atoms in order to give them an electric charge, and then uses that charge to attract the atoms along a tube.

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That said, however, today's digital media culture -- which shatters the 20th century mass audience into billions of 21st century authors and enables them all to broadcast their most intimate thoughts to the world -- seems to be making narcissism the default mode of contemporary existence.

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Anyone who doubts that this has been a century of spectacular architectural achievement as well as radical technological change need only visit the Alvar Aalto show that has just opened at the Museum of Modern Art here for evidence that shatters the myth that modern architecture failed.

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