She took direction well and pulled it back on the first verse, careful not to overpower too soon -- and then she killed it on the high notes.

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The problems are familiar, too: any old-fangled manufacturer with a continuous process knows that shift work needs careful management.

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While the sell-outs are a good indicator of the pent-up demand that Nokia and Microsoft have managed to create prior to the Lumia launch and is in line with our long-term view of the company, investors should be careful not to read too much into the news for we have no idea what the actual sales number are.

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If the executives at WebTV aren't careful, they may wind up spending all their time in La-Z-Boys too.

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And I think people should be careful about being too loose in terms of talking about a government shutdown, because this has -- this is not an abstraction.

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