At the moment, online multiplayer games are the most dramatic example of these constructed realities.

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Long-Term Capital Management was the most dramatic example of a hedge fund going belly up.

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The most dramatic example of this is Lasik surgery for the eyes.

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The most dramatic example of March and April volatility happened in 2000.

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They would be astonished to see how success (Microsoft being the most dramatic example) can actually arouse the ire of government because entrepreneurs don't have to get political permission to move ahead.

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Perhaps the most dramatic example of changes in the market is Air Berlin, which has swallowed several smaller carriers to emerge as Germany's second airline and the third-biggest budget carrier in Europe.

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Perhaps the most dramatic example of the upending of the traditional relationship between Americans and their government is captured in the video released earlier this year that featured dozens of Hollywood celebrities led by actors Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher.

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The largest and most dramatic example of this trend is in Manchester, where the city council hopes that a stadium, now being built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, which will subsequently house Manchester City football club, will serve as a focus for the regeneration of a whole swathe of the east of the city.

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PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, for example, has argued since the most recent stock collapse that only dramatic new breakthroughs in energy and food production technologies will save the economy from an extended period of Malthusian zero-sum behavior.

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