But according to Ryan, the gremlins (i.e. the lawyers) have managed to figure out a way to get around this.

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It seemed to have 80s level special effects, like the Goonies or Gremlins, or even as bad as an original Star-Trek episode.

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Kodak's new logo was nowhere to be seen at the company's CES booth, no doubt because the branding was unveiled after the show opened (though we can't help but think that any company serious about its image would have gremlins updating the booth while the rest of us sleep to bring it up-to-date).

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Despite mischievous comments from South Africa skipper Graeme Smith in the slip cordon that the pitch may have started to deteriorate, there were really no gremlins at all, but when the scoring rate dipped below one per over England's target seemed rather distant.

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Correction: Typo gremlins mysteriously swapped the home states of U.S. Congressmen James Sensenbrenner and Tom Tancredo in the July 3 Digital Rules.

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EasyJet is not alone in its extreme wariness of pregnant passengers British Airways, Ryanair and BMI have similar gremlins lurking in the fine print.

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Almost 20 percent of the respondents said failures were caused by "gremlins" and nearly 10 percent said either God or aliens are to blame.

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Technology gremlins are not to blame, despite the launch being delayed a month or two by some software problems.

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Skills Minister Phil Hope says that, since 2001, more than 1.5 million people have "beaten their gremlins" by getting a basic skills qualification, under the Skills for Life strategy.

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William Baldwin's editorial in Sidelines, " Medical Gremlins, " (Oct. 30) is right on the mark.

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