• If the latter, a fair amount of the acreage in a round-sided room is wasted.

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  • Mr. Javitz is correct in a round-about sort of way.

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  • Mark Twain famously described golf as a good walk, spoiled, but if you find no other enjoyment in a round, it can provide a lovely 4-mile walk (more if you spray the ball).

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  • Okay, so this week it all seems to be a bit up in the air, so to speak, and it continues -- in a round about manner -- with this story relating to a redesign of the NASA logo.

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  • Egypt's recent flawed election, which saw the ruling National Democratic Party push its parliamentary majority from 75% to 95% in a first round of voting, is a case in point.

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  • When you get referred to see a hospital consultant, would you like a letter to be dictated and posted in an unsecured manner to a mail room in a hospital pushed round on a mail cart, opened by somebody processed and then a postcard sent to your house regarding the nature of the appointment and where you should turn up?

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  • As she told the story of the preceding few weeks, a time when several different venture capital funds in New York were vying for a spot in her Series A round, pestering her with phone calls, lunch offers and even the occasional gift, it struck me.

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