• Sorry, but -- in a word -- tough.

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  • The critic demolished Pulitzer Prize-winner Cunningham's book about a middle-aged gallery owner attracted to his young brother-in-law in a 1, 000-word review in the Observer last January.

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  • Some children did complain, but according to Chris Walby - a social services expert helping with another child abuse investigation in Merseyside - their word counted for little in an atmosphere where they were not listened to or believed.

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  • Sarcasm and disdain may work in a 500-word opinion piece in a newspaper but they become tedious over 500 pages of a book.

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  • In a 1, 400-word op-ed page in The Wall Street Journal, he accuses the attorney general of playing politics and says the deception charge at any rate is baseless.

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  • When he's giving someone feedback on a document -- whether it's on a PowerPoint Deck or in Microsoft Word -- it's much more tedious to mark it up on a keyboard, Gutsche said.

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  • Lanza lays out his ideas in an 8, 000-word essay in The American Scholar, the magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa society.

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  • Much like Microsoft Word had a model for GUI-based word processing in MacWrite, touch-optimized office suites have been developed by or snapped up by Microsoft's competitors, including Apple ( iWork), Google ( QuickOffice) and RIM ( Docs To Go).

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  • The NAACP had a bury-the-N-word ceremony at its national convention in Detroit a few years ago, but the NAACP Image Awards, which were created to promote the positive images of African-Americans, has honored comedians and musical acts that have used the N-word in their work.

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  • On Wednesday, Nov. 16, I will participate in a panel discussion at the Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) Summit in Las Vegas to talk about the efficacy of online versus offline word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing campaigns.

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  • He could talk spellbindingly in word-perfect paragraphs or just as easily veer off into ideological fantasy.

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  • Some kids aren't even aware that they're participating in a word-of-mouth marketing effort on an unprecedented scale.

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  • "There are a lot of activists that describe infant surgery in one word - mutilation, " explains Dr Devore.

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  • Each year I comment that our World Billionaires list reflects the fortunes--in two meanings of the word--of the global economy.

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  • When Grasso replaced William Donaldson as the Big Board's chief in 1994, Reuters covered the story in a 147-word news brief.

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  • And the frustrations that came with trying, on deadline -- in every sense of that word -- to stop a crippling virus?

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  • Actual genes are buried in stretches of what appear to be gibberish DNA. Picking them out is a bit like finding the words in a word-search game.

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  • Once the posture test was over the participants received their new statuses and the researchers measured their implicit sense of power by asking them to engage in a word-completion task.

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  • It was one of only two known watches Patek Philippe made in platinum with a complex tourbillon movement--the word means "whirlwind" in French--that continually adjusts for error when the watch's position shifts.

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  • And though it will benefit from marketers' growing interest in word-of-mouth promotion, the company will have to scrap for those dollars with traditional media brands, whose rich content makes them attractive venues for social-media advertising too.

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  • Although previous studies suggested a mere title is enough to produce a detectable increase in an individual's sense of power, Dr Huang and Dr Galinsky found no difference in the word-completion scores of those told they would be managers and those told they would be subordinates.

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  • The North's response came in mid-afternoon, in a 1, 000 word statement from its highest decision-making body, the National Defense Commission.

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  • Users will no longer need to care whether the stuff they are looking for is on the web, in their e-mail, or in their Word documents.

    ECONOMIST: The internet

  • To count as "senior" - the word used in the Diamond memo - that would have to mean a top official such as Sir Nicholas Macpherson, the Permanent Secretary at the Treasury.

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  • The epic idea of the Oxford English Dictionary--to find every word in the English language--was typical of the Victorian era, a time when dazzling inventions and seemingly impossible projects were pursued.

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  • In a scene that was taken almost word-for-word from the book, Tywin tells Tyrion in no uncertain terms that he will be rewarded for his services as befitting his position, but Casterly Rock?

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  • The Bloomberg administration hasn't specifically requested that the funding for Advantage be restored in talks with state officials, people familiar with the matter said, and the mayor didn't mention the topic in his 3, 703-word testimony on Mr. Cuomo's proposed budget in January.

    WSJ: Homeless Blame Game

  • Mr McNeill, 43, who also planted a flag for Cancer Research UK in memory of his father-in-law said there was not one cross word during their 28-day trek across the ice, before being picked up by an aircraft and whisked back to base camp.

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  • Exxon Enterprises was typical, investing in high-tech businesses that had nothing to do with oil exploration -- losing out in word processors and computerized speech recognition.

    FORBES: Big brothers

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