Under a system of competing private currencies, we can reasonably expect that markets will converge at some point on one monetary standard, but issuers of varying reliability under this standard will exist.

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Shahrum does take pains to point out one enduring double standard: Often only women take the rap.

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While the materials and construction methods are similar to standard pylons, one point of departure is the colour - white instead of gun-metal grey.

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In fact, at one point, instead of creating a standard vision statement, she wrote and distributed a fictitious Wall Street journal article, describing the Xerox of the future in glowing and very specific terms.

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As one of the most pro-investor reforms possible at this point, the fiduciary standard has been lobbied for by financial planners, registered investment advisers and fee-only planners.

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Clocking in at 16.32 sustained petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second), Sequoia earned the number one ranking on the industry standard Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday, June 18, at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC12) in Hamburg, Germany.

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