It could fill the empty accounts, glue the fragmented system together and ideally make pensions much more portable.

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Sony is proposing a system that removes the glue and sticks the sensors in your pillow.

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Since each party to a transaction is likely to be able to place the other within Somalia's system of kinship, the shilling is underpinned by a strong social glue.

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