Drivers are likely to love that in a state where many already pay to have special plates saying, for instance, BIGBOY.

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Despite the realization that they had too much on their plates (and too many cards on the wall), this leadership team still struggled with narrowing their focus.

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This made people even more panicked and many began to hoard food on their plates, with nearly half of it not being consumed.

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Beijing had 4.7 million registered vehicles in 2010, up from 2.6 million in 2005 and has begun limiting the number of new license plates issued to 240, 000 in 2011, or about one-third as many as were registered in 2010.

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Instead, they created the illusion of action by spreading the many components of the settlement among various committees--much as kids spread lima beans around their plates to create the illusion of eating them.

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