It sounds very conventional satire but Ms Schoenle thrusts steel into her tale as she sends up the empty world of media folk addicted to sensation and lifestyle.
Operationally, not very, conventional spook wisdom suggested.
The "systemic" machine operates very differently to conventional PCs and desktops, which execute instructions in an ordered, linear fashion.
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That's very different from conventional submarines, which basically dive by changing the ballast of the ship to make it sink.
The Bedouin were not very interested in conventional religion.
The negative yield on inflation-linked bonds is just a corollary of the very low yields on conventional debt.
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The capability to strike at very long range with very great accuracy using conventional weapons has been a goal of strategic air power since the invention of the airplane.
Certainly the hitch does not seem to have harmed its own market value, well above that of some very much more profitable conventional firms such as PaineWebber, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.
The government has a very strong case, on conventional economic grounds, to block the merger.
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"Now conventional farmers are very careful when thinking of converting to organic farming and it will take time to convince them again, " Mr Dosch said.
For something slightly less conventional but still very aristocratic, stroll among a Dutch windmill, a Chinese pagoda and a gothic castle -- all of which can be found in Parc Monceau, which was constructed by the eccentric Duc de Chartres as his private garden in the 18th Century.
He doesn't spare his former coworkers from criticism, though: he warns that the split between the Windows 8-style UI and the traditional desktop is potentially confusing, notes the absence of useful Android and iOS features like touch-friendly app folders, and doesn't find the conventional Windows interface very practical with fingers alone.
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Its view is that the risk of death from primary injury with a Taser is low and certainly very much lower than that from conventional firearms.
Both believe that the fact that the spread between inflation protected treasury bonds (TIPS) and conventional Treasury bonds is very low, indicates that the danger of inflation is quite low.
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You can do it very easily by ignoring all of the conventional economics, of course.
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Simon Paisley Day and Anna Madeley are both very fine as the ever-so-conventional types whom Elyot and Amanda marry in an increasingly desperate attempt to escape from one another.
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So the perceived weakness of the American pupil in conventional studies is where his or her very strength may lie.
These things are very hard, sometimes impossible, to build into conventional models.
Then put this in your cool gizmos file: A cheap filter that fits over a conventional monitor or television set and displays very good 3D images.
Homeowners with exotic mortgages might want to consider switching back to more conventional fare--or at the very least should know what terms they agreed to in the first place, so they are not caught unprepared for higher payments.
Downing Street, it seems, wanted some positive headlines out of the SDSR, which was largely an exercise in cutbacks, so it decided to back the idea of Britain getting a "grown up" aircraft carrier, ie one launching conventional aircraft with catapults rather than a very large replacement "Harrier Carrier".
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This is, of course, very different from how I plan a trip in a conventional car.
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Finally, since stealth aircraft are such difficult targets, they will have a very low attrition rate over the course of a prolonged conventional bombing campaign.
In some cases, Delta is reducing the number of flights per day but increasing the size of the plane, bucking conventional airline wisdom that held business travelers preferred schedules with very frequent flights.
Ben Thornley: We were surprised to discover that, even within the constraints of fiduciary duty and the strictures of conventional portfolio management, US institutional asset owners have been very creative in finding ways to support regional economies and deliver the other secondary social or environmental impacts of priority to beneficiaries.
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Even worse, the efforts could lead to a breaking up of the very heart of FCS' network, in favor of a return to conventional approaches.
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Substituting Trills for conventional debt helps deleverage the government, something whose importance has become very clear with the debt crisis in Europe.
"We worked very hard to identify a group of patients who had reached the limits of conventional treatment - for whom there is currently no effective therapy and therefore are at the greatest risk of death from the condition, " Dr Lipsman said.
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Two conventional on-going ALS studies are designed to see if lithium has a very small effect on survival, something the PatientsLikeMe study wouldn't be able to pick up.
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Starting a 3, 000-foot ascent at midnight might not sound very wise, but while the previous day's climb had been spectacular in a conventional trekking sense, there was magic in this final journey.
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