Looking at them together made it seem like you could do both at the same time.

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Many experts believe that the answer to whether to pay off debt or focus on investments is to simply do both at the same time.

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Great communicators know how to do both at the same time.

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But it usually doesn't do both at the same time.

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"I think it's a reasonable request to say, 'We're willing to do one thing or another, but it's hard to do both at the same time, ' " Hansman said.

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You need to do both at the same time.

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We can do both at the same time.

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But can it plausibly do both, at the same time?

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My feeling is -- while it's legal to smoke and it's legal to drink, you ought to be able to do both of those at the same time.

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