Yes, the IRS can be an ugly creditor, freely using every intimidation technique in the book, but they are pragmatic also.

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Take the first technique in the book, for example: No Opt Out.

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True crime author Cathy Scott, for instance, is offering a one-hour Skype session on launching a book on social media, a technique many authors, including Scott, have used to move their books up the Amazon charts.

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So far, the cost of synthesizing and sequencing such very long strands of data-rich DNA as from the book remains too high to make the technique a practical commercial data-storage medium for the foreseeable future.

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Dex has a book-fed philosophy of successful seduction, although the movie never really shows us his technique in action.

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