An almost automatic right of appeal clogs the system further, with further appeal possible to the Supreme Court.

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The ruling stops well short of the almost automatic implementation of such deals that is common in continental Europe.

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Like nail-biting and interrupting, this patterned, almost automatic behavior needs to be broken with a specific and proactive approach one that uses old-fashioned goals, motivating tactics, and rewards.

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Consequently, getting in front of a prospect for a first meeting, which once was almost automatic, now requires addressing the following new Age of the Customer rules of prospecting.

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For my first novel, the choice was almost automatic.

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He could sweeten the pot by offering a deal to delay the automatic spending cuts (which almost no-one supports) and set a date in 2013 by which Congress would enact tax reform and, perhaps, additional spending reductions.

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Mr Bowles sounds almost impossibly gloomy about reaching an agreement on tax and spending to avert the automatic tax rises and spending cuts.

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The AK-47, for example, is widely available to private citizens around the U.S. as a semi-automatic version (firing one shot each time the trigger is pulled), but the military grade fully automatic (continuous fire while the trigger is depressed) model is illegal almost everywhere.

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