Likewise, if you provide a low margin but high frequency services like payments you must find a way to retain customers for long enough to pay multiples of your customer acquisition cost.

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Moreover, given the frequency with which industry members run afoul of the disclosure obligations for charges and convictions, you must be aware of the events that need to be disclosed and the windows for such disclosure.

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The system also scores the amount of time you are investing in external relationships, based on the frequency of emails, and whether there is reciprocation in those relationships, judged by how long you wait for responses, and if they arrive.

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AMD, the computer-chip maker, announced on Tuesday that its processor called "Bulldozer" had broken the Guinness World Record for processing at a frequency of 8.429 gigahertz, which is about three times as fast as the processors you'd find in a speedy laptop.

CNN: John D. Sutter,