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So is this stuff rocket-science Gatorade or rocket-science PediaLyte?
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Most scope mounts I've installed don't require rocket-science - a little common sense goes a long way.
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In the recent crisis, the excuse was, this time, we have global financialization, better monetary policy, rocket-science finance and China.
The book on financial crises: 'You need several levels of defense' 2010
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In the recent crisis, the excuse was, this time, we have global financialization, better monetary policy, rocket-science finance and China.
The book on financial crises: 'You need several levels of defense' 2010
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Of course, none of this is rocket-science, and you can probably just as easily invent your own names: a friend claims he sleeps with his partner in the George Jeston position, with a dog, Astro, stretched out between them.
Janet Kinosian: What Your Sleep Position Says About You 2010
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They should be pretty embarrassed; this isn't rocket-science, and there's no reason you should be able to pull crap like this.
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Women tend to be slightly more intelligent than men on average; men's intelligence tends to be much more dispersed ie clustered more on both the rocket-science and the dullard ends of the curve.
Males, Females, and College, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Of course, none of this is rocket-science, and you can probably just as easily invent your own names: a friend claims he sleeps with his partner in the George Jeston position, with a dog, Astro, stretched out between them.
Janet Kinosian: What Your Sleep Position Says About You 2009
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The real economic spillovers and side effects of Wall Street-leverage and rocket-science concoctions brought the curtain down on the romance with the unfettered free market.
Rob Johnson: Squandered Honeymoon: How Botched Bailouts Hamper Healthcare Reform 2009
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They put rocket-science technology into cars that resembled prams or duck-billed platypuses and sat back smugly and said "beat that"!
A single model of car may have six different aliases in six different countries! 2008
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