Stripe also handles all of the security, so that companies do not need to worry about becoming experts in online payments security.

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What is a manager, an entrepreneur, or a professional of any stripe supposed to make of all this?

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They're showing a strip of fun between the pant-hem and shoelaces with all manner of patterned socks that one-up the now-ubiquitous stripe.

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