Schaefer says he can cut a client's telecom costs 10% to 30% within a year, even after including his fees, which can run from thousands of dollars to multimillion-dollar sums.

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"It's simple, but it's nice, " Schaefer says.

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"It's what you'd expect based on the mechanism, " says Ernst Schaefer, an endocrinologist at Tufts University.

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"Something out there is pushing the universe, making it expand, making it speed up and we don't know what this is really, " says Bradley Schaefer, the Louisiana State University astronomer who presented the results.

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"Choice is a double-edged sword, " says QuantumShift Chief Executive Scott Schaefer .

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Now, as my colleagues Steve Schaefer and Halah Touryalai have reported, the New York Times says that the SEC is investigating this private market in shares.

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