Do a little research and piece together your own surround system, hire a voyeur from Geek Squad to do it for you, or just hire a live-in technician to handle both present and future issues.

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Already, the cost of failing to reform the system, both for present and future pensioners and for pension-providing companies, has been huge.

ECONOMIST: Pension funds

Because it is so important, both in the present and for the future, that we pursue this all-of-the-above approach to our energy challenges, because if we don't, we're going to see these kinds of scenarios year after year, where prices go up, politicians say, well, I've got a plan -- especially in an election year -- to lower the prices at the pump.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The communications devices, implicitly promising that there is always another, better, communication just a click away, deliver both a fantasy of future and anxiety about the present.

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Measuring economic costs weighs the expense of both vaccination and illness against the net present value of the future earnings of someone who would otherwise die from the disease.

ECONOMIST: Influenza vaccination

"This transaction provides significant benefits to Hughes, EchoStar, millions of present and future DirecTV customers and shareholders of both GM and EchoStar, " GM President and CEO Rick Wagoner said in a statement.

FORBES: The Dish On Hughes

They were both unique in their own way and neither of them could ever be replaced by any footballer in the present nor future.

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