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The company's name has been so serially mispronounced since mother and daughters came up with it in 2003 that they were recently able to assemble enough material for a blooper reel.
The island of Eigg suffered years of neglect by eccentric landlords, including a zany German artist; quite fortuitously the 65 islanders were recently able to buy the island for £1.6m ($2.6m).
MATHEMATICALLY confident drivers stuck in the usual jam on highway 101 through Silicon Valley were recently able to pass time contemplating a billboard that read: "{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e}.com".
But astronomers were recently able to construct the most detailed map ever made of the dark matter in a cluster of galaxies, an assemblage known as CL0024+1654 about 4.5 billion light-years away, by measuring the distortion caused by the cluster's gravity on the light passing through from distant galaxies.
Several nuclear power plants, for example, were recently able to find a defective part meant for a lubrication system while it was still in their warehouses, after one plant had to shut down because of a failure, and another of similar design shut down as a precaution and found the part that it was using was defective, too.
Using off-the-shelf facial recognition software, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University were recently able to identify about a third of college students who had volunteered to be photographed for a study — just by comparing photos of those anonymous students to images publicly available on Facebook.
With such an advantage, Pacific Bell Internet was recently able to raise its own customer rates for residential D.S.L. service by $10 a month to $49.95.
Macy's, for instance, was recently able to tamp down investor concerns by paying off $950 million that was coming due this year.
Sorto was recently able to fulfil this goal, when he became the first person in the world to have a neuro-prosthetic device implanted in a region of the brain where intentions are made.
Thanks to the reduced rents, he was recently able to open a Manhattan outpost of his Brooklyn design store, which will carry mostly contract and high-end residential furnishings.
The technology is promising enough that Parakweet was recently able to raise $2 million from angel investors, and Mr. Haridas said that several global media companies and retailers, which he declined to name, were testing the company's services.
