Whether they were born in Israel or the U.S., there always are multiple start-ups, and often several established companies, trying to solve the same problem.

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The competition will get more heated in subsequent weeks when multiple big-budget films start opening against each other.

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They can be more ornate than you'd expect, however: for a start, you can run multiple app-specific tasks in parallel, such as telling Chrome to search YouTube, IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes the moment you type in a movie keyword.

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According to an August 2005 State Department report, Russia has violated START verification and other arms-control commitments in multiple ways.

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When Hugh Martin, the chief executive of gene sequencing start-up Pacific Biosciences, discovered that he had multiple myeloma, he bent over backward to disclose the fact to his entire company in excruciating detail, and also to his investors, his business partners, and Fortune, which ran a story about the way he handled the decision.

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By the same token, Russia's evident interest in maintaining multiple-warhead land-based missiles threatens to make a mockery of the START II agreement -- whose principal selling point was that it would de-MIRV the former Soviet ICBM force -- while creating new, and strategically significant, cheating opportunities for future agreements ostensibly promising still lower levels of nuclear weaponry.

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As it happens, some in the U.S. government (particularly, National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and some congressional figures) have already urged that the ban on mobile ICBMs be revisited at least with respect to those equipped with multiple warheads (MIRVedsingle-warheaded Soviet mobile missiles than there is to accept a START treaty that would grant them a de facto advantage in both MIRVed and un-MIRVed mobile systems. missiles).

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Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning are teaming up on a new start-up called Supyo, a new video chat company, according to multiple sources.

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