First, it offloaded so many features from the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle that the system is becoming indistinguishable from an upgraded Humvee.

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With the Galaxy S4, Samsung has built up so many features that consumers will be spending far more time in apps designed by Samsung than with Google (not counting the core OS).

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It also packs so many clever features that many some users have simply given up on the increasingly complex service.

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As with so many of the features of "Grand Bargain" style plans for assisting the USSR, aid for defense conversion has considerable potential to make matters worse, not better.

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The stock fell to an eight-year low after RIM announced that it would have no new BlackBerry models until late 2012 and, according to analysts, the problem with the current line-up is that there are so many models and features, nobody can clearly tell them apart.

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It also facilitates the many other currency features that are so important to users, but not to governments, such as unrestricted person-to-person payments, user-defined anonymity and untraceability, near-immediate bearer settlement, transaction irreversibility, reliable store of value, multi-grid capable, and decentralized processing.

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Application companies, in the meantime, can hope to see their programs run on many more handsets--and so spend their time building specialty features like new languages for speech recognition or digital-rights software for mobile music sales, Rubin contends.

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There are many features of the solo 401(k) plan that make it so appealing and popular among self-employed business owners.

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Many smart phones, which offer a greater number of features, require an annual contract, so they're not available for prepaid customers.

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