Until 2001, the 53-year-old Desoto, Texas resident faithfully paid his credit card bills in full every month.

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In Louisiana, police in DeSoto Parish had responded to at least 20 incidents, many on Interstate 49.

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Where Mr Desoto focuses on skin, Damon Galgut is more interested in identity.

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"Linking all your employees is really difficult, " says Laura DeSoto, senior vice president of synergy and innovation at Experian.

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DeSoto figures that only 25 of the world's 207 countries are reaping the benefits of having a contractual, urban society.

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Victims of flooding beginning May 3, 2011 in parts of Mississippi (Adams, Bolivar, Claiborne, Coahoma, DeSoto, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson, Sharkey, Tunica, Warren, Washington, Wilkinson, and Yazoo counties) may qualify for tax relief.

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"It puts real rigor into innovating, " says DeSoto.

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Now, it's time to make the same kind of investment in the way our energy travels -- to build a clean energy superhighway that can take the renewable power generated in places like DeSoto and deliver it directly to the American people in the most affordable and efficient way possible.

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The car names we like best, where the name not only best suits the car's nature but where it also sounds, for lack of a better word, "cool, " include such automotive legends as the AC Shelby Cobra , Chevrolet Corvette , DeSoto Firedome , Dodge Viper , Lamborghini Diablo, Plymouth Barracuda and Rolls-Royce Phantom .

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