New and used car sales online are already fairly common, despite delivery challenges.

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Home grocery delivery is now common, thanks to companies such as Peapod .

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To accomplish the goals of national ownership, international leadership, coherence, a common strategy and predictable and credible delivery, he continued, it was crucial to develop a clear understanding of responsibilities within the United Nations and to cultivate the pool of international civilian expertise and leadership, ready for rapid deployment, as recommended in the report.

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Nielsen, a research firm, found that the two most common reasons Americans gave for not buying groceries online were delivery costs and the desire not to have to wait for a delivery.

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Lionsgate, Universal, Disney, Warner and Paramount are all on board with the scheme, which says it will provide participants access to "a host of delivery options" as digital projection becomes increasingly common.

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Flipkart has taken off in part because credit cards are less common in India and it offers the option of payment on delivery.

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Ford stockholders overwhelmingly sought to tender 1.0 billion shares, or just under half of the 2.1 billion outstanding shares, of common stock, including 240.5 million tendered by notices of guaranteed delivery.

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It also makes the delivery of the baby more difficult, with caesarean sections and forceps deliveries more common.

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