No installation, no home programming, no anxious watching to make sure it was doing its job.
Traders will be watching to make sure a combined entity doesn't use its influence to drive up fees, said Joseph Cangemi, chairman of the Security Traders Association.
They quickly learned the downsides of the job, from the very low salary to the indignity of constantly being weighed and measured by "counselors" watching to make sure they kept their slender figures.
When adopting a vegetarian lifestyle, nutritionists recommend watching closely to make sure the intake of key nutrients is sufficient.
South Africa's 2010 Local Organising Committee chairman Danny Jordaan said the special tickets were an attempt to make watching the finals as accessible as possible to South Africa's population, more than half of whom live below the poverty line.
Watching these replacement refs try to make a correct call was like watching a stoner make a lasagna.
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Sources said the Taliban may have been watching the troops make preparations to depart and launched their attack at a time of vulnerability.
Many individual investors said they were monitoring events in the Middle East, expecting higher interest rates and watching to see if Washington will make any meaningful progress on the deficit and avoiding a shutdown.
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Engineers from both the honeycomb and the thin-mirror camps, who fought bitterly over the contract to make the Gemini mirrors, will be watching closely, to see which of the two pairs of telescopes produces the better images.
This seemed to be a week for watching how things go wrong and getting at how to make them right.
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Basically, it was a way to make people feel less guilty about watching baseball during World War I by tying the game to patriotism.
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Mertes Troullier, 76, and his wife, Mildred, are also watching Gustav, which is predicted to make landfall anywhere between Mexico and Florida next week.
It's about as meta as it gets because you're sitting in a Cannes Film Festival screening room, watching a movie about someone trying to make a movie at the Cannes Film Festival.
It ought to be impossible to like Johnny but watching him squirm in the clinic with one girlfriend is enough to make you cringe in fear for him, you're so certain that the other girlfriend is going to come in.
However, having missed out on other targets, they are now poised to make a move after watching Brown facing Arsenal in the Champions League.
"I got the idea for how to make the stuff by watching a large pot of macha tea being stirred at a temple in Kyoto, " he says.
While we got the basics covered of how to make sure you are watching the game in HD, some problems may be out of your hand.
As leader of the opposition in Norfolk, a lot of people will be watching Mr Coke to see if he can make his new councillors rise to the challenge.
Their argument is that shareholders stand to make a lot more money by holding on to their shares and watching their value rise as Cadbury grows and succeeds - as an independent company.
Multinationals are watching for other changes that lawmakers might make to international tax rules.
When I was a kid, I used to make a big deal about watching the Oscars.
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As her preschool-aged charges nap with an assistant watching, she has the go-ahead to make phone calls to set up real estate appointments for later in the day, she says.
Actor Liam Neeson has told the Andrew Marr Show that, as a child, he was inspired to become an actor by watching Ian Paisley make political and religious speeches.
And today, I want to make it absolutely clear to Assad and those under his command: The world is watching.
But they're close enough to make people feel like they're watching the real thing.
American Express is creating media partnerships to make it easy for viewers to buy the clothing, furniture and other items they see while watching a television show.
Still, watching a product like this make the transformation from idea to real world object is about as good a selling point for the technology as we've seen.
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