Of the items on display, the one that looked most useful and almost ready for prime time was Sharp's media player with video-on-demand functions (above).
Not counting the Super Bowl, or even the playoffs, there were about 350 NFL games with almost 40 in prime time, and an average of 18 million viewers.
While some of these weapon and sensor systems like the Electromagnetic Railgun or the Free Electron Laser are at least a decade away, the Laser Weapon System and Air and Missile Defense Radar systems are almost ready for prime time deployment today.
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"Almost in every province Prime Minister Maliki visited we gathered more people in our rallies than his, " he said.
It is almost certain that the prime minister's right-wing Likud-Yisrael Beitenu alliance will enjoy that privilege after Tuesday's vote.
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Having put health at the very top of its domestic concerns, which Labour know tend to be the only ones that count when it comes to winning elections, the prime minister almost certainly has a further, unspoken criteria: will he be able to see off the opposition of the trade unions and concerns from his own side?
What the prime minister will almost certainly do now is simply refocus his campaign.
That result is likely to bring controversy in Kenya and an almost certain legal challenge from Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
It is still cordoned off, more than a year after a massive bomb killed the former Lebanese Prime Minister and almost twenty other people.
Investment banks must have a dizzying influence over the regulator to win special protection from short-selling, particularly as they act as prime brokers for almost all short-sellers.
Initially trained as a chemist, Margaret Thatcher retrained to be a lawyer, then followed her passion and entered political life at a time when the idea of becoming a female Prime Minister was almost inconceivable- even to herself.
Last month, the coalition elected American-educated Ghassan Hitto as its prime minister but almost immediately witnessed a walkout by about a dozen of its members, who accused Qatar and the Brotherhood of using pressure to install its candidate for prime minister.
For someone with such a pugilistic public stance, Malaysia's fourth prime minister has an almost gentle private mien.
The prime minister said the almost unanimous vote in favour of staying a British overseas territory was the "clearest possible result".
Mr Brown's energy secretary, Mr Miliband is almost as close to the former prime minister as Mr Balls, but he has cleaner hands and more cordial relations with the remaining Blairites.
Just five weeks ago another former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif used almost exactly the same words, when he arrived in Islamabad on his way, as it turned out, to Riyadh.
And let it however be put on the record that most of the newspapers were very praiseworthy of Gordon Brown and his Cabinet as being a Cabinet of great competence in Gordon's handling and say Jacqui Smith's handling of the terrorist outrage that took place almost immediately after he'd become prime minister.
The yen appeared to briefly regain its safe-haven status after four months of almost uninterrupted losses as Japan's new prime minister pushes for aggressive monetary easing.
Almost comically, a current favourite is the Belgian prime minister of less than a year's standing, the unknown Herman Van Rompuy, who seems not yet to have acquired as many critics as his longer-serving Dutch and Luxembourgeois counterparts, Jan Peter Balkenende and Jean-Claude Juncker.
But the foot-and-mouth statement will almost certainly be seen as the event at which the prime minister set his party on course for that date with destiny.
Speight - who held Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and his government hostage for almost two months - is now serving a life sentence for treason.
Almost his only critic has been Dominique de Villepin, a former prime minister and fierce personal rival, who now plans to set up his own party on the right.
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The prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, who had previously been almost absent, urged his ministers on August 4th to speed up relief efforts.
Indeed, last week the tentative revival of the peace process was almost extinguished before it had begun: Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, briefly suspended all contacts between his government and Mr Abbas's, following a deadly attack on a border crossing by Palestinian militants.
She was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, and at first she alienated almost everybody.
President Yeltsin had sacked his long-time Prime Minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, in March, replacing him with the almost unknown Sergei Kiriyenko.
Almost any bank with a lot of retail business except for sub-prime lending and perhaps credit cards can expect its minimum capital to fall.
By prime blog viewing time (10 a.m.), it had almost dipped below the fold.
Second, he has wrestled for power almost non-stop with the left-of-centre Bulent Ecevit, the current prime minister.
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