Still, Langone, no stranger to Wall Street, made a round of phone calls to top banking executives in the last few days to size up interest in pursuing a counter-offer for the NYSE.

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Yet like many other businesses, telecoms is littered with counter-examples suggesting that size means loss of agility.

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Conventional CMOS image sensors mount the pixel section and analog logic circuit on top of the same chip, which require numerous constraints when wishing to mount the large-scale circuits such as measures to counter the circuit scale and chip size, measures to suppress noise caused by the layout of the pixel and circuit sections, and optimizing the characteristics of pixels and circuit transistors.

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Democrats defended the size of the bill, saying it was necessary to help counter the economic downturn.

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Democrats defended the size of the bill, saying it was necessary to help counter the economic downturn and restore budget cuts made under former President Bush.

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Other Democrats have defended the size of the spending bill, saying it is necessary to help counter the economic downturn and restore budget cuts made under former President George Bush.

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The big countries were determined to counter the watering down of their voting power by the steady increase in the size of the EU. With many more small countries among the applicants expected to join over the next decade they were determined not to be swamped.

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