It was only last September too that the Tories labelled the UK the sick man of cybersecurity and demanded an overhaul of a system that had barely had time to get into gear.

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She told the BBC News website: "You can't sleep because the traffic keeps moving on a couple of inches and everyone starts beeping their horns and you have to wake up and get into gear and move on".

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While other designers were concerned with selling the next whizzy thing, John's mission was helping people get into making music gear themselves.

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They said they wanted something that would take them and their gear into tight spots and get them out again.

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This imbalance may get worse as the startup economy kicks into high gear with the passage of the jobs bill and its crowdfunding component.

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Prosecutors say that this was when the shadow campaign kicked into gear, lavishing funds on consultants, get-out-the-vote efforts and items, like T-shirts and yard signs, bearing the logo of the official Gray campaign.

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