Its monopoly ended in 1988 when Ping An was set up.

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Put them on your computer screen and smart devices, carry them in your notebook, or set up task reminders to ping you.

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Surround yourself with visuals that support the development of WOW. Put them on your computer screen, carry them in your notebook, and set up task reminders to ping you.

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Instead, they ping-pong between meetings or checking up on employees.

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The company has set up fitness rooms with exercise machines and ping pong tables.

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Apple said Friday it has signed up more than one million users for the Ping music discovery service the company launched Wednesday.

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So it is quite possible the Lords will kick the measure out, and the old ping-pong between the two Houses would then start up.

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Ping An rose 2.8% to CNY38.51 and China Pacific was up 3.5% at CNY21.22 on a positive outlook for earnings growth.

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The decision to give up on repeal of Section 28 saved a costly bout of "parliamentary ping-pong" between the Commons and the Lords.

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Apple has tried to dress it up with such enhancements as an integration with Twitter that allows posts from Ping to appear on Twitter but by now users are too disillusioned with it to take it seriously.

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The leading lady turned up in Dubai last month to open SPiN Dubai, a nightclub-cum-ping pong hall that aims to make the often-ridiculed sport a trendy pastime once again.

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