As Iain Thomson puts it, it really might be time to take this space idea seriously and get on with getting up and out of this gravity well.

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The U.S. government has also been "extremely active in the Congo Basin region in putting pressure on governments to take this issue seriously, " according to Huijbregts.

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The idea of this Vivo X1 is that BBK wants to take audio very seriously on its new flagship phone, which is why it's been given a Cirrus Logic CS4398 digital-analog converter plus a CS8422 sample-rate converter -- a combo that's seemingly popular amongst Hi-Fi connoisseurs and manufacturers.

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So as you say now that you're not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling this year, why should House Republicans take that seriously and think that if we get to the one-minute-to-midnight scenario, that you're not going to back down?

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As you mentioned, Apple makes a huge amount of its operating profit on the iPod player, so we can expect the company to take this very seriously.

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