For many, there first experience with Coinstar would have been in your local grocery store where there was a coin counting machine sitting in customer service or right next to the bagged ice machine.

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The legislation creating the Secret Service was sitting on Abraham Lincoln's desk, waiting to be signed, on April 15, 1865, the night he was assassinated.

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It came in January, when he was sitting in a private prayer service before his inaugural, just friends and family.

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They're, you know, I've, I've probably, in these last couple of years, spent more time talking, discussing, sitting down with National Health Service staff than any prime minister before me and I can tell you they are highly dedicated, very able, committed people and a lot of them have been working flat out in this system, starved of the proper investment, and are desperate for the changes we're trying to introduce.

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The incident passed largely unnoticed because the third reactor had only recently returned to service after years of sitting idle.

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Mr. NEIL WOOD (Retired Rancher): If you look around the table here, about everybody sitting here has been in the service in World War II.

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Lucky and Flo, the two danger-loving police dogs whose exploits as international crime fighters are well know to readers of this site, have just become the first non-humans to be awarded Malaysia's outstanding service award for their tireless work in trotting around and sitting down at the first whiff of plastic.

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One likely solution: issue a pared-down version of the service, possibly one that included basic gestural controls and the ability to view conference participants sitting side by side in a virtual room.

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