Strip away the app race and both operating systems also have ties to their respective pasts.
One way is to use the criminal justice system to attack those with dubious pasts.
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Chicago and New Jersey have plenty of publicly elected convicts in their pasts, but these are big places.
Defense lawyers tore down the claims of witnesses who had troubled pasts or had spent the night drinking.
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Elsewhere in Russia the new holiday was a low-key affair, devoid of parades or fly-pasts, our correspondent reports.
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"I don't know why people keep bringing up pasts, or people keep bringing up stuff that happened, " Chimera said.
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Pliable though this sort of history must seem to purists, companies still cannot dodge difficult episodes in their pasts.
Long known as a haven for people and money with questionable pasts, Antigua offers a warm welcome to cyber casinos.
Debra Angel MacDougall advises job seekers with troubled pasts or obvious disabilities on how to present themselves to hiring managers.
Tapping into the suspects' pasts helps to give us a better understanding of what type of person we are looking at.
They have mysteriously arrived in the Rieubane Empire not knowing how they came to be there or anything about their pasts.
"We believe in what they've been doing and we've done a lot of homework on their pasts, their programs, their kids, " Lin said.
In addition, Bremer said, restrictions put in place under the Clinton administration on the use of informants with criminal pasts have hindered efforts.
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But UNARCO went bust long ago, so lawyers sued Pneumo Abex and Honeywell, which in their corporate pasts both made asbestos brake shoes.
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He questions the premise of a recent ProPublica investigation into how some docs who do paid speeches for big pharma have checkered pasts.
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Moreover, many other politicians, Democrats as well as Republicans, have equally questionable episodes in their pasts, and worse things have doubtless gone on in Texas.
The characters in 2010's "Hot Tub Time Machine" deliberately fiddle with their own pasts to improve their futures, and the movie leaves many of its strings untied.
The show features celebrities delving into their ancestral pasts.
With 96% of HR professionals saying their companies perform background checks on applicants, according to the Society for Human Resources Management, how do those with less-than-perfect pasts compete with perfect applicants?
Ms Middlebrook also brings out the saving naivety of the footloose, hustling mid-West of 50 years ago, full of show people improvising both themselves and their music, with no pasts and no questions asked.
" He adds a bit later: "That we live in a large spiral galaxy with very little central stellar bulge and a modest central black hole may be a clue to the type of galaxies best suited to life: ones that did not spend their pasts building colossal black holes and fighting the demons unleashed in the process.
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