Micromuse, which makes software for telecom networks, had gone public a year earlier but without the bang that often accompanies tech stock offerings.

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Micromuse, which makes software for telecom networks, had a year earlier gone public, but without the bang that often accompanies tech stock offerings.

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Meanwhile, the federal government launched its own investigation which wrapped up late last month without much of a bang.

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It's important to note, however, that Columbia's non-electric Omni-Heat offerings aren't included in the recall -- and, for the record, that stuff does a stellar job of keeping one warm without any whiz-bang circuitry.

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But companies have been allocating their marketing budgets to these media outlets without knowing which ones offer the biggest bang for the buck.

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Such models can reproduce all the characteristics of a standard big bang universe in a natural way, without the extra premise of inflation and its special initial conditions.

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In 1948 George Gamow, a fellow pioneer of nuclear physics, added Mr Bethe's name without asking to a paper that explained how chemical elements had been made in the Big Bang.

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So while dry aged beef is an expensive luxury, you get more bang for your buck with a rich deep flavor in every bite that cannot be matched without dry aging, yet very few butcher shops or restaurants serve the stuff.

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