"If we do it and do it right, there are 100 other people who will copy our data and use it in interesting ways, " Malamud says.

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What it is going to do is stimulate the economy, hopefully, in some other ways by making credit more available to people who haven't yet bought houses or to companies who haven't invested in equipment, to companies or investors who want to do some borrowing and put more money into their own enterprises.

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"The theory we're working with is that people want to make their Facebook profile attractive to other people, but it turns out that they do that in very different ways, " Dr Hogan said.

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It means she has to justify her demand in ways that the other applicants do not.

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And in some respects it may be possible for them to move in ways that other leaders might not have been able to do so.

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