Whatever the case may be, we're definitely underwhelmed from an industrial design standpoint.

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Mr. SWETMAN: Every place that we've had a building destroyed or contaminated or whatever the case may be, we're going to build back in each of those communities.

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Much of the criticism was reserved for Samsung's (broken?) Blu-ray player, which due to a bad chip, bad transfers, too much compression or whatever the case may be, did not ship with movies that fulfilled the HD promise and didn't match the quality of the demos.

ENGADGET: High-def DVD sales slower than expected; HD DVD sells more units but Blu-ray makes more money

He courageously pursues the instincts of his imagination, whatever the cost may be and in this case the cost is high, since a tale stretching over thirty years needs a fierce narrative push that he cannot really muster.

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