At stake is--pick a number--billions of potential users and ever-more unique ways to separate cash from Web users.
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Mr. LYNN TURNER (Former Chief Accountant, SEC): I would almost say that the title on the letter could just about be pick a number, any number.
Once we pick a number, then sometimes the issue comes up of a transition period, from the present floating system to the initiation of the gold standard system.
We pick a limited number of investment ideas, that we intend to hold for a long time.
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Players can pick from a number of NBA stars since the game has an NBA license, while create-a-player and create-a-team modes will let gamers build custom rosters.
For these, pick a pin number that a burglar won't be able to guess easily--avoid using your phone number, street address, or any other number that can be found in the home.
After you pick a theme, a number of sites will rush mail you a "party" in a box.
Although projects that have a positive NPV suggest profitability, you want to pick companies that look beyond a positive number by setting a target profitability.
It is worth taking a look down the list, as despite the flawed number one pick, it does remind you of a few particularly great endings in games.
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"There is evidence of a muted pick-up in the number of houses bought and sold in the last quarter of 2012, with average prices now at 89% of their pre-recession peak, " said Mr MacRae.
In this version of the future, which also happens to be touted by Microsoft and Cisco, you will never put down your mouse to pick up your phone to call a lead whose number is listed in your sales force automation application or to upsell a customer whose details are contained in your customer relationship management solution.
In 1944 Paul Tibbets was told about the Manhattan Project and ordered to pick a crew for what was called special bombing mission number 13.
Such charges were sweeping Silicon Valley at the time after professor Erik Lie of the University of Iowa released a paper in 2005 suggesting that a number of companies may have changed dates on stock options to richly compensate employees (pick a date with the lowest stock price).
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Pick five numbers between 1 and 59, and a Powerball number from 1 to 35.
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Patients at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor are being advised to keep the number of visitors to a minimum as they could pick up the bug on the wards.
While Wisconsin Democrats are increasingly comfortable that they will hold on to those Democratic seats that are being challenged in the recall elections, there remains concern that a failure to pick up three seats in the Senate, the number needed to throw control to the Democrats, could have severe, negative implications for the state going forward.
And I don't want to belabor this, but if you look at the time frame of number of days between the announcement of a Supreme Court pick and the hearings, for the last nine confirmed justices it's been 51 days between the announcement and the beginning of the hearing.
Researchers can only reference a limited number of other papers when they publish, and they pick the most important ones.
Like, someone who's going to pick you off the street is not going to ask you for a social security number and ID.
Though there has been a rise in the number of civil-society groups trying to pick up the pieces, progress is marked in baby-steps.
When civil-rights groups fretted about the ability of minority voters to get to the local Department of Motor Vehicles to pick up a free state-issued ID card, Governor Haley created an 800 number to offer free rides to anyone who couldn't afford the transportation.
But maybe the IFA should get a lawyer and a genealogist on the job of increasing the number of players he can pick.
Over time, the things you like will accumulate and you can scroll through the list and pick posts to reblog which in turn will be reblogged by other users and generate a number of notes (visible with each post) that show exactly how many people either liked or reblogged the piece.
"You might pick up a call you wouldn't normally, or someone could try to hijack your number and make calls to other people, " says Forrester Research analyst Maribel Lopez.
" Jonathan Donner, a researcher at Microsoft India who published a paper on "The Rules of Beeping, " said: "Beeping is simple: A person calls a mobile telephone number and then hangs up before the mobile's owner can pick up the call.
Vick, the number one draft pick in 2001, was promoted as the future of the NFL. A talented, running quarterback who would redefine the position.
In London, a growing number of groups, including Abundance and Hackney Harvest, are promoting free, pick-it-yourself forays, with maps of fruit trees in the area to get you started.
This is a generation that rarely sees an invitation in a non-electronic format, always knows the phone number that is calling them before they pick up the line, and is so virtual that spending the morning at a local Starbucks with an iPad is just like being at the office.
"They have an English address, a registered GP, an NHS number - so there is really no way that the hospital will pick up from that, " she said of the lack of checks.
At the moment she's finishing a book for publication in 2012 that debunks myths about teens and social media. (Myth number five: Kids don't care about privacy.) Mark Zuckerberg might want to pick up a copy.
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