So far, the system had worked, with no fraud reported, although this week, many people could not get through as publicity about the site caused Internet traffic to jump to 28 times normal levels.

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The strategy... trains a legion of customers to think that such a jump in value is completely normal and sustainable by most of the industry.

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The strategy effectively skips a whole cycle of traditional price drops as manufacturing gets more efficient, but trains a legion of customers to think that such a jump in value is completely normal and sustainable by most of the industry.

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The theory was that injecting money into the economy would cause banks to take that money and lend it, jump-starting the economy and bringing us back into a normal recovery.

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Recent discoveries have led to advances in how to unleash the immune system, though one challenge has been to jump-start the body's defenses without injury to healthy, normal cells.

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