"Our performance in the second quarter provided another proof-point that our long-term strategy is right, " said Brian Gladden, Dell chief financial officer.

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That Apple is making very much larger profits than Amazon is proof that the second model works in the here and now.

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The mayor said he suspended payment of blindness benefits on the island at that time, with the exception of those who could provide proof from a second doctor.

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Which brings us to the second reason we don't bite the bullet and snow-proof our infrastructure: We think of snowstorms as emergencies that inevitably bring with them power outages and snow days, so we don't demand a snow-proof infrastructure.

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"These findings provide the first proof in man that aspirin prevents distant cancer metastasis, " the second study's authors concluded.

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Further proof of foul play came when an aide to the judge in the second case stepped down after alleging the judge had been pressured to issue a guilty plea.

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The second is that in the economics of taxation is is a basic assumption (also a basic proof) that you want to tax capital incomes less than labour incomes.

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