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In fact, in a curiously un-Intel-like performance, it was manufacturing the chips, especially its newest chips, that tripped the company up.
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 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 ...
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."
Reporters tripped over themselves to describe the importance of the deal, saying, in order of increasing excitement: 1) it signals "convergence between old media content and the new medium of the Net"; 2) it presages more megamergers, as other companies struggle to keep pace; 3) it "marks the passage of the Internet from an exotic technology into a mass media industry"; and 4) it represents "the triumph of the Internet as the irresistible force in business."