| Deprived of the Internet by a balky cell phone modem, the habit of daily blogging has proven hard to break. |
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| Guerciotti's cyclo-cross models were especially sought after, thoroughbreds in a field of balky, unwieldy CX beasts. |
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| Original consumer models were bulky and balky, user-friendly only if the user was a technogeek. |
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| Because of balky knees, Palmeiro, 36, no longer moves as quickly around the bag. |
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| And for this reason she hectored him knowing how difficult and balky he tended to be, especially towards her. |
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| The biggest obstacle that could keep Hernandez from finishing strong is a balky knee. |
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| The Koidu base is complaining of congested data-network links, a balky router and malfunctioning wireless-network nodes. |
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| Their capsule will carry up more spare parts for the balky oxygen generator, but have room for little else. |
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| In one widely reported case, an American pilot went so far as to throw a balky steward off the plane. |
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| Phillips performed some on-the-spot maintenance of a balky treadmill today. |
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| A student assistant with computing skills can help with restarting a balky workstation or writing a Web page. |
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| In case the balky internet connection is insufficiently irritating, the hotel is also providing me USA Today on a complimentary basis. |
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| Then, with wind blowing him out horizontal under the wing, he hooks a boot on that balky wheel, kicks the mother home. |
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| You had to wonder what he was thinking, watching on television with his balky left leg propped on a hassock. |
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| It's a device called a network extender, which is meant to improve — and extend — a home's balky Wi-Fi signal. |
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| But this is not, as some would have it, wholly the fault of balky American senators who have refused to pass a cap-and-trade bill fast enough. |
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| He had just been laid off and had a lot of time on his hands, and would be happy to take a look at my balky machine. |
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| The heat is balky in the winter, and there's generally no air-conditioning in the summer. |
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| The only problem on the final day of the race was a balky transmission that the crew replaced in a mere 18 minutes. |
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| Depending on the model, the complaints range from faulty key fobs and leaky sunroofs to balky electronics that leave drivers and their passengers stranded. |
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| Team scouts think a balky right thumb will force Warner to retire. |
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| Other than a balky elevator, the only real link between the two films is choreographer Hermes Pan, who was Fred's right-hand man throughout the Ginger years. |
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| As he gets older, his defensive range shrinks because of balky knees. |
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| It had been left intact as a backup to the balky original warp field. |
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| Like many latecomers to computing, his instinctive reaction, when faced with a balky Web page or a frozen screen, is to click furiously and open more windows, thereby exacerbating the problem. |
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| These disagreements led the obstreperous and balky McClellan to make statements and take actions that would have been and indeed were considered insubordinate by almost anyone other than the extremely patient Lincoln. |
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| Forcibly remove unwanted and balky applications. |
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| Those flaws included technological ones, such as confusing ballot layouts and balky punchcard ballots that made many voters' intentions uncertain. |
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| A sand trap and balky wheels are challenges to Spirit's mobility that could prevent NASA's rover team from using a key survival strategy for the rover. |
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