Severe reactions don't usually happen the very first time a person gets stung, Capes said.

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Dell had the inventory problem whipped--it doesn't build anything until it has an order in hand--but its phone-based sales staff wasn't very good at selling to first-time buyers.

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This isn't the first time access to YouTube has been restricted by a government, and the very same film caused the Pakistani prime minister to call for a similar ban at the time of the movie's release.

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And even though it's been a very long time since the first knives were crafted out of stone, we haven't given up on that ancient manufacturing technique.

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Dave Kearns: Initial panic as problems occur in Asia and Eastern Europe (where the date changes earlier than here), which should settle down by the time the first football game kicks off and people realize their lives won't be disrupted very much.

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And I think in many ways it's a testament to the hard work of a lot of people in the administration in bringing a very disparate group of stakeholders together for the very first time to agree on one standard for emissions and for fuel economy, something that hasn't been done before.

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