"He basically never went for the needle, " said his friend George Suter.

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And basically I've never had a thought in my head that I should go learn something.

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Basically, there has never been a recession that was not accompanied by a bear market in stocks.

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He basically said, we should never do things for people that they can do for themselves.

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"That's basically been promised and it's never been delivered on, " he said.

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Sun, a hardware company, never made much from Java, basically giving it away and spending little on the brand.

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We've never been late, and it was basically well, sorry but this is how we're doing it, get on with it.

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"Basically, he told me that this case would probably never go to trial, so there was no reason why I should not sign the affidavit, " she told Fox.

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We'll admit, we're a little tardy here, as this went on sale late last year, but if you've never heard of it, it's basically last year's Series 5 Ultrabook with a touch panel appended.

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Basically, unless you were of age during the Great Depression, folks have never seen anything like this.

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The possible move, which has been floated previously, "makes more sense than a cap, because it's making the point that retirement accounts were never meant as an estate-planning vehicle and it would accomplish basically the same thing, " Mr. Slott, the IRA consultant, says.

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