• Early phone books offered tips on how to use the receiver - "the lips should be almost touching the mouthpiece and there is rarely need to shout" - and to "announce your identity at once upon receiving a call".

    BBC: Writer Evelyn Waugh's number is among millions online

  • Problems are rarely solved over night--but there have been more than 130 nights for Schering to attack this one.

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  • Furthermore, the notion that they have the security of a debt instrument is usually a fallacy rarely is there any liquidation value when an early-stage company fails.

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  • Each year I guide ski expeditions across the pack ice to the North Geographic Pole and each year brings new surprises -- severe storms rarely seen in these parts, vast tracts of first-year ice where there should be years of accumulation, pack ice drifting faster and farther than ever before.

    CNN: The story

  • That's because there's little to lose--they rarely put up any money to build the new properties.

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  • Back in London, I rarely went into a hotel unless an out-of-town visitor was staying there.

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  • There seemed to be a half-dozen named storms every August, and they were rarely worth the trouble.

    CNN: Excerpt: The calm before Katrina

  • There's plenty in the poll - from confirmation that those who raise taxes are rarely as popular as those who spend the money raised, that Carwyn Jones is nearly as popular as Boris Johnson (more popular than Alex Salmond in Scotland comes one suggestion?) and that more people agree with, than disagree with him that policing and criminal justice should be devolved to the Assembly.

    BBC: What you think of reshaping the NHS

  • Thus, politicians rarely rouse themselves to do much to help, and when budget-cutting time comes, what little assistance there is often ends up on the block.

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  • There are feelings of anxiety-hope-anticipation of meeting people you have worked with virtually but rarely met face-to-face that accelerates that bond building suddenly because you have spent more time to get to know them.

    FORBES: 5 Fatal Flaws with Virtual Meetings

  • In the hills surrounding Gharyan there were scenes rarely seen in Libya since the capture and killing of Col Muammar Gaddafi nearly three months ago - revolutionary forces are again in position, their anti-aircraft guns mounted on the backs of pickup trucks pointing west towards the town of Assabia.

    BBC: Libya militias clash in Gharyan near Tripoli

  • Rather, there are a bunch of new sub-industries based on the original smartphone technology, but which now rarely compete with one another: iPhones, Android phones, Blackberries, as well as distinct premium, mid-priced and budget products within them.

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  • After the warmth of seeing them reunited (or semi-reunited, given how rarely more than one or two are featured in a scene together), there's a sort of awkwardness to it, as if nobody really has much to say.

    CNN: 'Arrested Development': What the critics are saying

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