From that point, until it initiated its lawsuit in 2009, the EEOC alleged it had engaged in continuous activity relating the investigation of the claim.

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Frequency of trades is only one factor and case law shows it came about only to verify continuous business activity standards.

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New England was a small industrial community during the 19th Century and there is evidence continuous human activity and settlement in the area spanning at least a thousand years.

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What seems to be attractive in science is no longer its being a high intellectual activity, a continuous human search to represent and predict nature, but for what it can produce in terms of controlling, and therefore in terms of power, of mankind on his sorroundings and his fellows.

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And the catch all: based on all the facts and circumstances, you participated in the activity on a regular, continuous, and substantial basis during the year.

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