"Truth-telling pays off, even if you're clumsy about it, " he said.

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Move past that clumsy integration and you're left to parse the actual usefulness of the stylus.

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There is a limit to how much you can or should do by way of clumsy state control over consumption of fat or any other nutrients that a current fad happens to label as bad.

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The phone is clumsy and the e-mail feature is irrelevant if you use a Blackberry.

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Moreover, League adds, if you had only one copy of a blockbuster film running in several auditoriums, you'd have to jury-rig a setup in which you would run the film through multiple projectors, an arrangement that was both clumsy and dangerous.

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