That's the thing, Cable: You were boring to a fault, but you worked the way you were supposed to most of the time.
Meaning: You buy boring banks, utilities and steel companies, while passing up software, the Internet and biotech.
But this is less painful than wasting the time of people you are speaking to because you were boring or hard to follow.
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With a few simple fixes you can turn boring presentations into powerful sales and marketing weapons.
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You prefer the shuffle mode on your iPod and you skip the boring parts of The Tonight Show with your TiVo.
However, if your viewers are consistently dumping out of your videos before they finish, you are conditioning them to turn you off and to make judgments that you may be boring them.
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Without boring you with the math, I will simply note that the average price of an asset that generally rises in value over time will always be lower than its final price.
Without boring you in academia, one of the assumptions in the theory suggests that companies and asset classes have a natural, repeating cycle in which good performance begets bad performance and vice-versa.
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Unless you really get along with somebody, those people will do their absolute best to tell you the same boring things they tell everybody in order to not make any mistakes and get in trouble with their publicists.
At one point, having just shown off a breathtaking fully-modelled aerial view the aforementioned future mega-resort, the game then immediately drags you into the boring, pop-up baddie-filled maintenance tunnels underneath it, so your view of this awesome structure lasts mere seconds.
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If you grew up in a boring, white British environment, it showed you a place with black faces, different cultures and creeds and people living together in harmony.
Read it before a long journey, and you may regard the boring old motorway with a new appreciation.
Now, thanks to the U.S. Congress, maybe you can skip the boring parts of movies, too.
So what happened to all that boring stuff you could have purchased at the dawn of the new millennium?
She said she felt when you write out a speech, you use far more flowery language than if you are speaking to someone and you sound stilted and boring.
If my keyboard jams in the process of writing this chapter, you expect me to stop, go buy another keyboard, install it properly, and keep writing, all without ever telling you about a single boring detail regarding my computer problems.
You know, we're in a boring stage of the Internet, if you will, where it's a utility.
You're left with a boring, basic, budget game whose best feature is the ability to choose the type of soundtrack you favor.
You may want to stay boring until this little experiment is over.
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More importantly, you can say no to boring, ineffective communications.
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But their reputation as boring, let-you-sleep-at-night products may be outdated.
Once we get some good entries, we'll cut the whole shebang together in a segment for The Engadget Show (provided you guys aren't super boring or something -- though we don't think that will be an issue).
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Life, however, bizarre, exciting, enticing, complex, frightening, stimulating and often as boring as cardboard, awaits you.
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And as in the previous ad, the updates come to life as a ballerina performs on the dinner table and friends have a snowball fight while the boring relatives go on, you know, talking and listening to each other.
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That's so you can discreetly check the time in a boring meeting without fussing with your shirt cuff.
But if you are not careful, it can be boring and unexpressive.
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While I'm sure the game is fun, you would have to put me in the most boring situation in the universe to get me to play something like Diner Dash.
Sharp has just wrapped a rather dry press conference at IFA, where it announced very little, but did rattle off a series of fairly benign and boring numbers (which we will spare you from).
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