Wenger was fortunate to inherit a solid defense in 1996 and he was smart enough to leave it well alone.

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Miss Horwood-Smart also detailed how Martin lived alone with his Rottweiler dogs.

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So why do so many smart people still try to go it alone?

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Toshiba said it plans to build the business as a stand-alone platform providing utilities pursuing the smart grid opportunity.

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If Android is not free, Apple, Google and Microsoft will dominate the smart phone OS. The mobile OS licenses alone could create another Microsoft!

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Spiffy hardware alone is no longer enough to sell a smart phone.

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In effect the hand-held consumer GPS device market is crumbling as functionality that once required a stand-alone gizmo is incorporated on a widespread basis in smart phones.

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Everyone alone at a table at Ritual was either typing on a laptop or thumbing a smart phone.

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Yet most impressive are the more modest homegrown ventures: new boutique hotels, restaurants, small IT shops, printers, event planning, and tourism offerings. (In 2010 alone, 18, 447 new businesses were registered in Rwanda.) A young woman dressed in smart attire urged two visitors to come to her new shop, which sells upscale fabrics and offers custom tailoring.

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