In contrast in the U.S. Facebook is approaching or surpassed American usage of search engines and other platforms like Amazon, Ebay, Craiglist.

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Suffice it to say when these states enacted trust statutes that were similar to the offshore statutes, some of those attorneys who had been drafting offshore trusts now started drafting domestic trusts for the same purposes, and thus the Protector provisions migrated into American usage.

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Of course, I had to see how my energy usage compared to the average American.

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Straight up usually means the same as "neat", but its usage can cause confusion, as American mixologist Jeffrey Morgenthaler has explained, because there's also the term up , which usually means chilled and served in a cocktail glass.

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American Express reported a 17 percent increase in card usage.

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He expects American Express to gain from the increase in card usage across the globe as consumers and businesses shift from traditional forms of payment, such as cash and checks, to credit and debit cards.

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