No, I am not flirting with you.

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And, as the latest non-farm payroll data shows, the American economy is already flirting with (if not already in) recession.

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Bargaining ploy or not, Handler has been busy publicly flirting with the idea of giving up her E!

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But news from America, where cities from Philadelphia to San Francisco have been flirting with similar ideas for years, is not encouraging.

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Luckily for now the relationship status is still open between these two, but if the flirting gets more serious, an Apple and Facebook domination might not be so science fiction.

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You see the phrase come up again and again in the intervening years, hitting peaks in October 2008 (October is a touchy month in market history), then March 2009 (the recent bottom) and then not again in a big way until February 2012, when the industrials were flirting with 13, 000 once gain.

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Platonic or not, there is a faction of women in the FW community who are outright against flirting as a business tool.

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Yet, his Instagram avatar was boldly flirting with a girl, prolifically posting inside jokes about his crush and inviting commentary not only from his school friends, but also from a far-flung social network of kids from Connecticut to New Jersey who I am certain he's never met in person.

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