New York is such a different city today that it is hard sometimes to remember what it was like in the 1970s.

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It is one that has sometimes plagued celebrities like Joe Dimaggio.

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Sometimes it feels like people think the Prius is so great that it can magically clean the air around it.

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Sometimes the attached file bears an icon that makes it look like it is a calculator.

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The emotion in them is so raw, so deeply felt that it sometimes feels intrusive, like overhearing a private grief that becomes so compelling you can't tear yourself away even though you know you should.

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The second reason, paradoxically, is that the industry can sometimes be less commodity-like than it seems.

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Sometimes, it may be that a smaller business like a construction business where it's relatively capital intensive is going to have difficulty competing with some of the larger companies in terms of buying the equipment that they need.

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It is sometimes difficult to reconcile preservation with liveability, but it should also be remembered that the castle itself, like all castles, is not some cryogenated product of the 13th century.

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