This nonconformism teases a feature that would have allowed users to make use of all those extra tiles, customizing unique home screens that was representative of not only their own use, but of Microsoft's entire design aesthetic.

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So instead of more authority being transferred to local parties, the high representative increasingly made use of his discretionary powers and, among other things, ended up sacking more than 70 elected officials over the next few years.

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As scientific instruments go, they're highly imperfect: they ignore distinctions of meaning, their counts can be inaccurate, and they're not necessarily representative of the language that people use when they're kicking around political issues with their co-workers or at the breakfast table.

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But he also said there was a "duty on the party of representative groups" - like charities - not to use "strong language" which could exacerbate concerns.

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Surveying a nationally representative group of over 2, 000 people, the study found that 60% of Americans use social media sites and, of those, 66% engage in political or civic activity on the sites.

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