Although the Walmart Foundation has donated, and will continue to donate, food directly to these organizations they are also striving to think outside of the box and find other ways to support food banks.

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"We've been asked by service providers to see what we could do with a box in the home--ways to move music around the house, set up mobile units, or establish virtual private networks between home and business, " said Dan Sheinman , Cisco's senior vice president for corporate development.

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Instead, car owner and renter will have to swap keys either in person or find some other ways, such as using a lock box.

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Finding new ways to power civilization offers up a box of goodies irresistible to everyone from Silicon Valley investors and engineers hoping for '90s-style payouts, to office-seeking senators looking for visionary solutions, to governors like Ritter, whose political lives depend on hauling home bacon by the ton.

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It wins at the box office which is an even bigger reward in some ways.

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After four years of constant defeats at the ballot box, Mr Morales's foes will need to find new ways to challenge him.

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Improving a search function sounds complicated, but Costa says there are many ways to do it, some as simple as making the search box highly visible.

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For marketers, that means poking the box is about producing fresh approaches and compelling content and engaging and integrating business with consumers in new ways.

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