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Despite the one-day loss of almost $700 billion in stock value and the halting of trading, not once but twice, by tripped "circuit-breakers," the papers make the non-crash case in their primary reporting.
The creation of what the WSJ rather slobberingly calls a "telecommunications colossus for the 21st century" may be tripped up by regulators, say all the papers.
In fact, in a curiously un-Intel-like performance, it was manufacturing the chips, especially its newest chips, that tripped the company up.
In his education speech, he tripped over the term "exemplary," which came out of his mouth as "exemplarary," and he referred to the Walter Sisulu Children's Academy, a charter school named after the late ANC leader, as "Sizzle-oo."
In one go-round she's tripped and forced to hobble, which means she doesn't bump into the woman with the baby carriage, which means she doesn't arrive at her banker-father's office to catch the exchange between him and his pregnant lover, which means she doesn't stop her boyfriend from robbing a supermarket, which means ...