So let me just lay out the substantial common ground in the current bills.

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The enclosure of common land was seeing the eviction of peasants from the fields that lay between them and starvation.

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One, Mars Climate Orbiter, had a particularly humiliating crash, because the fault lay with a group of engineers who, in defiance of common sense, had continued to use imperial units of measurement in their calculations when all around had adopted the metric system.

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Alongside our efforts to lay a new foundation for economic growth, we must follow through on our common commitment to raise living standards across developing countries and to make smarter investments in areas like agricultural development and food security.

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And if the higher-yield, riskier extremes of the market sometimes remind you of a horse race, here's a common link: Betcris, a Costa Rican bookmaking Web site, has also posted odds on Lay's and Skilling's fates.

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