And my sense is, if we don't get a hold of this, what are you going to look like 10 years from now?

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"When you are the first one to get hold of a new gadget, it's important that people around you already know a little bit about the product and can recognize it, " said Toshiyuki Ueno, an engineer and technology consultant, who got an iPad last month in the U.S. and has a reservation to buy a 3G version in Japan.

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Usually you can get hold of their best time and race against a "ghost" or "shadow" to see if you can beat them.

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First of all, you'll see Betty Currie is trying to fulfill her responsibility to get a hold of Ms. Lewinsky.

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That also assumes you can get hold of coveted works at a time when plenty of other people are after them and when some buyers are prepared to spend whatever it takes.

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Warning: To get the new 15% rate, you must hold a stock for 61 of the 120 days surrounding the date it goes ex-dividend: that is, starts trading without an upcoming dividend attached.

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The only reason to get hold of Bitcoins right now is because you think they might be worth a lot more in a few hours or days.

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The overall AMT tax rate will be lower than your ordinary income tax rate, so why not hold off and get the benefit of the deduction when you're at a higher rate?

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