You can, however, fit a few dozen large textbooks into a book reader the size of one paperback-a boon for medical students, for instance. |
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The bank may reboot its bond-buying program, a boon for debt-strapped Eurozone countries squeezed by prohibitively high funding costs. |
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Low floor buses would be a boon to the disabled, the elderly, women and children, because of the ease of boarding and alighting. |
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Surely this precocious, polysyllabic facility is an invaluable boon to cognitive development. |
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Yoga's most valuable boon may be its ability to promote the bond between mother and child, both during and after pregnancy. |
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The on-going literature and fiction book exhibition at the British Library is turning out to be a boon for the bookworms. |
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It is also a boon to those farmers who are, in effect, protected from competition. |
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The evolution of sophisticated chargeback programs has been a boon to facility and real estate executives. |
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Liberalisation came as a boon to the commodity trading, which is gradually gaining ground in the market circles. |
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The lag in the climate response is both a boon and a problem for policy-makers. |
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They are a boon to the participating countries as the benefits of more trade, investment and employment enhance their respective economies. |
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Economists and policymakers have generally applauded the growth of borrowing as a boon to the economy and a blessing for average Americans. |
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I'm sure it would be a boon to small clubs like ours who are struggling to make ends meet. |
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This case may be the first in which EPA intransigence proves to be a boon to environmentalists. |
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The Internet telephony booths will be a boon mainly to the non PC-user who is not comfortable with headphones. |
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Yet rent control discourages private investment in low-cost housing, hardly a boon to the poor. |
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A growing demand for goat meat among New York City Muslims has been a boon to a livestock auction tucked away in the middle of Amish country. |
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The zoo is 50 years old and still a boon, providing a welcome change of pace when small heads get too spinny. |
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I actually enjoyed watching the film with this feature on, and can imagine what a boon it would be to an unsighted person. |
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Grand amours and boon companionship are conspicuously absent from his narrative. |
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This untrendy middle-class haven, throbbing with ambition again, is an economic and political boon to New York City. |
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A means of access to the up platform of the station from the Worcester road would be a boon to many. |
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The penchant for late night-long drives has come as a boon for pushcart vendors selling a variety of ice-creams. |
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Adequate and free parking space is another big boon for shoppers who throng these stores. |
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For wildlife this is a boon, especially for white-winged and mourning doves. |
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Staff who make the house-party atmosphere go with a swing are the biggest boon. |
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The added bonus of lossless audio compression is a boon for people who have good speakers and good ears. |
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Over the years, Mother Nature's benevolence was a boon to Florida growers, giving them the competitive advantage over cold-weather spud growers. |
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As an added bonus, the keyboard seems to light up, which I envision will be a boon to struggling typists working in windowless, lightless spaces. |
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With injuries hitting Bradford hard, Pratt's utility back status is proving an enormous boon. |
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The walls are pleasingly solid, and the doors hefty wood, with two between the bedroom and the corridor, a boon for light sleepers. |
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But for heavy industry, the ability to finally pass on higher materials costs has been a boon. |
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The Fed has slashed rates 12 times since 2001, producing a boon for fund investors. |
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Knowing these people helps to understand why alcohol is such a boon to the lost and the lonely. |
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What's bad news for the government and corporate America could end up being a boon for the oft-rejected lounge lizard. |
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Granger's work has been a boon to macroeconomists, while Engle's has been crucial to modern finance. |
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On the one hand, ballooning Credit and a glut of liquidity creation were a boon inspiring astonishing asset and earnings growth. |
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The whole thing can now be done with a single pass, using a single repository and that's a big boon. |
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The current vogue for caravanning has also proved a boon to the manufacturers of holiday homes. |
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As a mulch, bark is a boon, but its colour can make for a drab garden in winter. |
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One boon was a new awareness of the extent to which seismic activity affects Yellowstone's geothermal features. |
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This is a boon for those who can follow a recipe but would like to know how to present the final offering. |
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The success of the vineyard, which Grace admits was a boon for his ego, coincided with personal and emotional meltdown. |
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But apart from bluffs, tricks, and mayhem, the coming year may be a boon for babies. |
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If we are to have this quaint surtax on upward mobility, at least let's make it open and a boon to the community at large. |
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It might not be good news for certain companies, but it surely is a boon for consumers. |
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But the warmth is a blessing and a boon for aching backs after a day of off-road trials. |
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The presence of policemen would be a boon particularly during electioneering by candidates. |
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It would be a boon to cities if they could get rid of such misbegotten places. |
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And they even come with their own animal handler, free of charge, which should be a great boon. |
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The procession is a boon for shopkeepers in the area, especially restaurateurs. |
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The use of biomass electrical generation is hardly the environmental boon it's made out to be. |
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Bombing birds' nests is actually a boon for bird-watchers, since the ones that survive become rarer, and more exciting to spot. |
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To accurately assess and stabilize a life-threatening, intra-abdominal injury without requiring transport to a secure area would be a boon. |
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For anyone who's ever had a dispute with a neighbour over property, the law could be a boon. |
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On the motorway I check out the adaptive cruise control which is a fantastic boon. |
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His dark and splendid speaking voice was both a boon and a welcome bonus. |
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Apple is already positioning egg freezing as a boon to women at the company. |
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Adding vehicles to the grid could be a boon to vehicle and fleet owners in several ways. |
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Now they do business year round, which has been a boon in times of economic crisis. |
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A new set of non-stick cookware is a boon for any housewife as it means a goodbye to all those grease-stained kadais and pans stuck with food deposits. |
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The revitalization of the distillery is a boon to heritage advocates, who've lost many valuable structures in recent years, quite often to the wrecking ball. |
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Uber is a boon to professional car-service drivers, who tend to have a lot of downtime between jobs. |
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China's reunion with capital-surplus Hong Kong has also come as a boon. |
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Lending libraries are a boon for those who have a hunger for reading. |
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This period is a boon for advisers as all sorts of self-employed workers try to minimise this year's tax bill by setting aside income for future pensions. |
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Despite powerful evidence that such a system would be a boon to law enforcement, the NRA has adopted a scattershot, drive-by-shooting approach to mowing down the idea. |
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A computer and an hydraulic pump are necessary to make this electro-mechanical circus perform but eliminating the torque converter is a boon to efficiency. |
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African women questioned whether microcredit was a boon or bane. |
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It's a boon to news organizations hungry for any tidbit of information about high-profile suspects. |
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The stable yard and paddocks would also be a boon to riding enthusiasts. |
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The standard-fit electric folding soft top requires the minimum of effort and when the weather turns less than perfect the standard hard top is a boon. |
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Creating lots of new yen cheapens the currency, which is a boon for exporters and is modestly inflationary. |
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Whereas TARP 1.0 would have been a boon to transparency, TARP 2.0 muddied the waters badly once again. |
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He supplicates before Lord Shiva for a boon of spiritual bliss. |
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No, it's one of those days where your own boon and bounty seem unearned, unfair, because other people are dealing with so much horror and sadness. |
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As a side benefit I am sure the bridge will also be a boon to fishermen and will be lined every night with salmon poachers slinging their hooks into the racing tide. |
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Will the blackout prove to be a boon or a boondoggle for business owners? |
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I don't think I'm being unfair to her majesty when I say this isn't a language I'd expect her to understand, still less namecheck as a national boon. |
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The other great boon, and in my book the main reason to consider a Scottish holiday above an unpatriotic flight to the humid south, is the quality of the light. |
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The ultra-fine filter is a boon to brewers who need to remove cloudy yeast residues. |
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Some privacy advocates think that our propensity for being unnerved by drones will end up being a boon to privacy. |
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Besides being fun to eat, pistachio nuts are a boon to our health. |
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Alfred Nobel's discovery that nitroglycerine could be stabilised in paste was a boon to revolutionaries, assassins, dissidents and nutcases everywhere. |
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United Livestock Producers believes the State Government's agreement with Emirates airlines could prove a boon to Mid West farmers and pastoralists. |
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So the seats could be a boon for occasional outings with your offspring and grandchildren, travelling congenially under one roof instead of split up in two cars. |
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But the courtship behaviors and rituals documented are a boon to science. |
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Indeed, the Kindle and other e-readers could be a boon to newspapers. |
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There were a few heavy downfalls, but even they proved a boon to the indoor traders who did a roaring trade when the crowds scurried for shelter in the stands. |
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Anne is unduly modest on her blog, but she is a long-standing author of Mills and Boon romances. |
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When Boon visits the murdered woman's home, there is really no need to let us see the bloodstained floorboards. |
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Keune and supervisor Jaap Boon investigated the red pigment vermilion from the Rubens painting. |
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With a boat ramp and two docks, the 50-acre salt-water lake is a boon to boardsailors and small-boat skippers. |
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Now my best friend and boon buddy was a tousle-haired Uzbek named Yusef Nichan. |
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Improvements to this important transportation corridor have provided an economic boon to the region. |
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Supplying the armies, both in the Netherlands and in Germany, proved a boon for the agricultural areas in the Dutch inland provinces. |
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Each astronaut embarks on a perilous journey into the heavens, per se, and if successful, returns with a boon for dissemination. |
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Due to its lighter weight and thus greater speed, the caravel was a boon to sailors. |
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Their environmental impacts have been shown repeatedly to be less damaging to the environment, and a boon to global biodiversity. |
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Despite the public relations boon, Louis's charitable fights proved financially costly. |
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Sound film, in fact, was a clear boon to all the major players in the industry. |
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Lancelot accepts and uses his boon to demand that Galahaut surrender peacefully to Arthur. |
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This pathogenic consumption is a boon to the producers and the businessmen, who exploit the situation with gobblesome advertisement. |
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There's little doubt that the North American Free Trade Agreement will be a boon to Mexico, but are Hispanics buying it? |
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Some of the well-known sledgers of the earlier years like Merv Hughes and David Boon had large walrus moustaches, which made movement of their lips imperceptible. |
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On the surface, the ovum sensor appears morally unproblematic, if not a moral boon. |
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It is truly amazing and a boon for the spacially impaired which, let's admit, occasionally includes us all. |
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Installation of the briquette system has been a boon in reclaiming water and coolant. |
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In addition, MBD execs say the repowered fleet has been a public relations boon. |
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Great Australian players in the early years included batsmen Border, Boon, Taylor and Steve Waugh. |
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Along with Waugh, selector and former batsman David Boon defended their selections. |
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Romantic fiction was especially popular, with Mills and Boon the leading publisher. |
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Initially, instrumental roles were flexible, with Boon Gould also playing bass guitar and saxophone and Lindup doubling on keyboards and drums. |
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Victory would be a boon for Komorowski's Civic Platform party, unlocking a political logjam more than a year before the autumn 2011 parliamentary elections. |
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Boon Gould left the band in late 1987, following a support slot on a Madonna tour. |
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This was followed up by his second solo album One Man, featuring lyrics by Boon Gould. |
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Phil Gould invited some musician friends to play at a party, including his brother Boon and Mike Lindup. |
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As an actress, she has starred in TV dramas from Boon to Chalkface, Locksmith, Yes and Palace Hill. |
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In October 2012, on Mark King's birthday during a gig in Bristol, Boon Gould joined the band. |
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We discovered that God himself vacillated on the exact formula it took to get through the pearly gates, which was a real boon to those of us in the ministry. |
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In 1949, Pilcher's first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills and Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. |
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Now, a Purdue University study has suggested that one of the peskiest household pests, while disastrous to homes, could prove to be a boon for cars. |
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New Boon Edam StereoVision technology allows businesses to detect piggybacking at high-security entrances. |
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It seems likely that the adverbs formed from the CP of thoon 'to do' occur with transitive verbs and those from the CP of boon 'to be, become' with intransitive verbs. |
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Famous Tasmanian cricketers include David Boon and former Australian captain Ricky Ponting. |
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I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord? |
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The resulting decline in brewpubs was something of a boon to other forms of microbrewing, as it led to an availability of trained craft brewers and brewing equipment. |
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King moved to London at the age of 19, subsequently forming Level 42 in 1979 with Phil Gould, keyboard player Mike Lindup and Phil's guitarist brother Boon. |
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But he is probably best remembered for Boon, the light-hearted drama centred around two ex-firemen Ken Boon and Harry Crawford, played by David Daker. |
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