Google has also seen interest from big companies with specific uses such as retail, call center or hotels where remote working and on-the-go workforces are common.

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Scan-as-you-go mobile devices are a logical next step after the self-checkout lanes that are now common in big food and drug chain stores.

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But when you retire, that dynamic suddenly disappears and, as is common, you might go for days without speaking face-to-face with a good friend.

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We have to return to some very common-sense principles that everyday Americans live by every time they go to the grocery store or want to go to the movies or cash their paycheck, and that is you can't spend more than you have.

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Consistent with a common NCAA mantra featured in several of their commercials, most student-athletes go on to become professionals in an industry outside their sport of acclaim.

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Affirmative answers to these questions can go a long way to protecting internet-enabled devices from the most common threats, which include unauthorized access to the device, compromised data and denial of service (DoS) attacks.

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What yesterday also told us is that no one party will be able to dictate where we go from here, that we must find common ground in order to set -- in order to make progress on some uncommonly difficult challenges.

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But our interest is not in -- as long as these goals are met, that we do not go headlong into another manufactured crisis -- we are focused on trying to find common-sense solutions to the challenges that face us.

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This cemented Lynch as the everyman's hero because the book convinced millions of investors that you didn't need to be a quant or investing savant to find so-called "10 bagger" stocks (stocks that go up tenfold.) Just use common sense and invest in things you see everyday and understand.

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And then to, as things began to stabilize, to go about the business of getting our fiscal house in order in a reasonable, balanced, common-sense way.

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