That's three or four steps in four or five weeks.

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But at the end of the day, what they're offering -- for a fee, granted -- is getting you one, two or three steps closer to life's most potent and enduring resource: love.

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May 29, 1974 Bobby Valentine of the California Angels takes three steps toward the mound after Milwaukee's Clyde Wright throws a pitch over his head.

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And Mitt Romney is there today for three events -- that's not the kind of steps you take as a candidate if you think that the state is in the bag.

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The ratings firm lowered Italy's credit rating by one notch to triple-B-plus, three steps above "junk" territory, citing concerns about political uncertainty at a time of economic weakness.

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India's inflation rate has dipped to a three-year low, giving more room to policymakers to take steps to revive its sluggish economy.

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