Bogle says one simple technique is to hold just two different classes of assets, including U.S. bonds and U.S. stocks.

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You can also do this simple technique with just your own fingers.

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They add that SonyPictures.com was breached using a simple SQL injection technique.

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For most major league seasons when running a statistical technique called simple linear regression, the number of wins is statistically correlated with team payroll.

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The technique is not as simple as it sounds.

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Saito, 45 has been working at the shipyard for 26 years, and time is required to learn the technique: five years to do a simple curve and another five to become really skillful.

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His appeal is simple: let us do the experiment to see if this technique makes sense.

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To do so, astronomers resort to Fourier analysis, a mathematical technique that allows them to break a complex curve into a set of simple ones called sine waves.

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