U.S. and Asian demand, he says, was broad-based, with particularly solid growth for analog chips, embedded controllers and programmable logic devices.

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In the male camp, tenor Brandon Jovanovich had a broad, solid sound as Carlos and baritone Scott Hendricks was an unusually aggressive Rodrigue, overacting and occasionally oversinging, but passionate.

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These formations run in broad escarpments jutting above the landscape, creating solid walls and occasionally breaking into tall sections, like stubby sandstone fingers reaching towards the sky.

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These are brief exchanges between different characters and, like the character models themselves, are done in broad strokes, but appealingly so, with solid voice acting.

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