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If any elements of your file are missing, you can expect that file to sit on a desk and collect dust.
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Best Buy and other retailers would not continue to stock them if they were simply going to sit on the shelf and collect dust.
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If your partner is a hard-core Giants football fan, for example, rather than team paraphernalia that will likely collect dust, she suggests buying tickets to a game.
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Meanwhile, the old and obsolete laws collect dust, waiting to spring back to life for all the wrong reasons, sometimes to enforce precisely the opposite result to what well-meaning supporters hoped to achieve.
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Amtrak conductors have been getting schooled on how to use iPhones to scan passenger tickets on select routes since November -- forcing hole punches to collect dust on a lonely shelf at the station.
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We're the ones starting to collect dust.
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In 2008, while automakers plodded along with the same old gas-guzzling models as the price at the pump hit record highs, American consumers scrambled for more fuel-efficient vehicles and left the gas-guzzlers to collect dust on the showroom floor.
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So when we collect comet dust, we're actually collecting some stardust that was, you know, four and a half billion years old and was here when the solar system formed.
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For Sony's Hummel, who has seen concession-stand boys handle film prints with buttery fingers as dirt and dust collect on the movie reel, "better" means a picture that is as scratch-free and crisp at the end of a movie's run as it looked on day one.
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Three days later when the first men to reach another world arrived, their initial act, within moments of setting foot there, was to document and collect a precious sample of lunar dust, to share with laboratories across the Earth.
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