The social smack that keeps us coming back to these sites is the connection to our friends, colleagues, loved ones and the other random folk that sneak into our networks.
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When we hear the door of the very last bookstore slam shut with the same sort of "sickening smack" that announced the chopping of the last Truffula tree, will the Once-lers of the digital world regret their destruction of the old literary habitat?
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And there should be more emphasis on reforms to deliver services more efficiently, less on measures that smack of nickel-and-diming a received agenda.
Don't confuse an area with a zone, however, because that would smack of the disappointment for the zones of the 1980s.
Moreover, there is a strong sense that these artificially low rates are just a prelude to a withering bout of inflation that will smack fixed income instruments hard.
Okay, so maybe we'll be willing to take back a little of that P50 smack talk if UMA works as advertised, but we're not going to hold our breath, bated or otherwise.
It sounds like an exuberant offer from financial firms that were smack in the middle of a financial crisis but keep in mind these retail brokers had little, if anything, to do with any subprime mortgage meltdown.
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Naturally, it is important that such steps do not smack of "capital controls" or other draconian measures that could cast a shadow over our common desire to preserve the free flow of private capital into and out of the United States.
Accordingly, we also deserved McMansions with falsely low ARMs that would eventually smack thousands upside the head in nearly every community across the United States.
Estimates that it could smack into the Moon caused great excitement, since previous planned impacts of rocket parts allowed Nasa to measure the shockwaves passing through the Moon and find out more about what lies beneath the surface.
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It didn't help that we were smack in the middle of the Depression and Prohibition. (Talk about a double whammy-first, you lose your job, then you can't even get a drink.) I remember a lot of potato soup at home, along with canned peas, canned pears, canned everything.
It is also home to a large swath of virgin rainforest and Belo will be built along the Xingu River, smack dab in the middle of that forest.
The TV monitor sits along one wall of the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center where the team practices, and smack dab in the middle of that wall is the national championship trophy.
That would put the firm smack in the middle of the vigorous Asian infrastructure industry.
In so doing, Henry Paulson has acted in a manner that not only appears to smack of a conflict of interest and egregious disregard for the public's fiduciary interests.
And he saw an opportunity to take his vision and, really, encode it in this city that was able to represent all of our postwar fantasies and aspirations and hopes and, also, gave us a way to somehow ground our fears because we can't forget that Disneyland was built right smack in the middle of the height of the Cold War.
Maybe it's finally time to manifest that MythTV setup we keep talking smack about.
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The fact that the company is laying the smack down on Wall Street earnings estimates today is one of them.
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They still smack of the Manhattan-style modern buildings that have been popping up in nearby downtown Brooklyn ever since developers have realized that many of the city's well-heeled jet set live across the East River.
Second, the government feared that scrapping the trust arrangement outright might smack of a lack of confidence in Mr Vyakhirev.
That, of course, will put us smack-dab in the middle of a presidential election.
They smack of Argentina's fatal attraction to technical fixes that postpone painful realities.
Researchers are looking at an old factory in Trenton that has high levels of lead and is smack in the middle of a residential neighborhood.
Any of those moves smack of the command-and-control management style that is going out of vogue among CIOs in favor of the user-centric one that accomodates BYOD, the Consumerization of IT and other trends.
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That and her supportive teammates usually handled things and smack talked back for her.
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But the dormant Commerce Clause runs smack into the principles of states' rights and local control that conservatives normally support.
Right smack dab on the town square stands an absolutely gorgeous county courthouse that is no doubt as old as Texas itself.
Tiny Avila Beach, smack at the midway point of California's Central Coast, is that throwback beach town, upgraded for your new, adult standards.
Little Mr. Debord, with not so much as a single overpriced defense lawyer, ducked all that Wells Fargo tossed his way, flung his puny stone smack dab between their eyes, and stepped back as the giant tumbled down.
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