The key skills that check-out staff are advised to spot in potential colleagues are friendliness and helpfulness.

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Powers and Thomas routinely check out menus from restaurants ranging from the high end to the low end, looking for the key words: wild striped bass.

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This workaround relies on the fact that Microsoft is currently offering, for a time limited period, free upgrades for the Media Center add-on, and it is this process that is flawed because Microsoft does not check the validity of the original key used to activate the copy of Windows 8 Pro before dishing out another key.

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