The big stuff won't start until this weekend, but the first parades have started.
In other words, you believe you won for the big stuff, not just because the voters didn't like the other guy.
Or sadly, was it a year of tragedies that caused us to reevaluate what the big stuff in life really is?
So how are we to save our decision-making energy for the big stuff, like choosing a job or planning for the future?
Call it crowdloading, if you will -- the new model made it more feasible to grab the big stuff like movies and whole music albums.
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Europe are with us on the big stuff: they are Atlanticists, they oppose a federal superstate, and they more or less believe in free markets (just don't ask our Polish friends about farm subsidies).
The big stuff is easy - your mortgage and car loan and council tax all come out of your bank every month and you can quickly add them all up and work out how much they total.
So we have a system of government that's pretty good at the big picture stuff now - as in keeping the peace - but seems to be struggling with the everyday business of governing.
And whilst the first minister is doing the "big picture" stuff, the UUP leader is left wrestling with yet more internal ructions.
Both times, the name of the band was a big secret, the stuff of attendee gossip on the bus in.
In an interview with Bloomberg television Gorman says everyone just needs to calm down about the big bank breakup stuff.
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The skis were big enough to handle the rough stuff, and the suspension worked perfectly.
With information, the big change of course is that the stuff can be copied at near-zero cost.
"They asked me what it was like to be in the big leagues, the normal stuff, " Yankees left-hander Andy Pettitte said.
Conference rooms at its Bethesda headquarters are named for different kinds of candies--and have big bowls of the stuff sitting around.
The big problem with this visionary stuff, as campaigners are well aware, is that there is no sign of enthusiasm for it among the wider public.
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But Wall Street could not make a lot of money from that, so it bank-rolled initiatives and legislation to repeal these protections and permit pension funds to be invested in the stuff they make big profits by peddling.
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It took him 13 years and 50, 000 pounds of stuff to build the big one.
His wife made him build it to house all his stuff, including the big pieces of cardboard on which he's pasted together elaborate collages of old photos, ship locations and skeletal records.
And it may be that just the bill was too big the first time -- there was just too much stuff, and they weren't clear about what the jobs act would do.
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It is a marked contrast to the big-vision, big-ticket stuff that was long an Oracle mainstay.
The iWatch will attract derision if Cook poses it as anything other than a hobby and right now he needs to be fixing big stuff not playing in the sandbox.
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That's what made money for the big pulp-comics companies: superhero stuff, mostly, but sometimes horror or romance or science fiction or crime comics, each of which has its own familiar codes and formulas.
Yes, it was as if an entire generation of Americans consented to hopping aboard a giant hamster wheel of accumulation, all striving toward the imaginary objective of acquiring enough stuff and a pot of money big enough to sustain a comfortable level of consumption through to the grave.
"This is the big problem because Web 2.0, the social media generates so much 'stuff' and there are so many people involved in chatting with radicals on the internet and to monitor that would require really huge resources and no intelligence service has completely figured out how to separate the 'chatter' from the 'real, ' significant stuff, " he said.
We can't--we don't have the room to make these big old projects or stuff like that.
As a long time gamer, particularly one who hangs on to and from time to time plays older games on older consoles (in addition to the new stuff), one of my big concerns is LONG TERM access to the content that I buy.
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But like any employee taking on a new assignment, a big part of the job is just learning where stuff is stowed.
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