In Mexico now, the once-common government press conferences presenting high-profile cartel captures seem to be a thing of the past.

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Blake was transferred to the old hospital ward of the Men's Central Jail Friday morning, but sheriff's department officials said the move is a common security and safety consideration for high-profile inmates, and not a result of any medical condition.

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You can zero in on companies, groups, and locations that you have in common with another person with a quick look at his or her profile.

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Blockbuster has in common with Jessops and HMV - the other two, high-profile retail casualties of the first two weeks of the year - that it has failed to adapt to the triple whammy of digital technology, competition from discounted online sales and the continuing squeeze from economic downturn.

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All this data also enabled the BCCC to come up with a robust profile of a typical professional in CSR as presented by the most common responses.

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Common practice is to aggregate all of the data into attributes that provide a static profile of customers.

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To be sure, not every high-profile prosecution ended up with jail time, and most businesspeople have enough common sense and decency to avoid fleecing investors while making a living.

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Mr. Ballmer placed a high-profile bet on a computing philosophy that PCs, tablet computers and smartphones should share common elements, style and underlying software.

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While deploying profiles is common at the enterprise level, encouraging users to click a link in an email to download a new profile for their phone may be educating users to perform risky behaviors.

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