If you skip this step, the quality of your product will be sorely compromised.

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Though the majority of employers do check references, others skip this step.

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If your screen looks fine, though, you can skip this step.

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It would be better to skip the intermediate step and go straight to the FairTax.

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But Google also offers an option that remembers verification on any given PC for a month, so users can skip the extra step while still periodically checking to see if their account has been hijacked.

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Many people skip right pass this step and end up backtracking.

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That may be true, but Soros also runs a global hedge fund that can skip from asset to asset and country to country, one step ahead of the regulators and the tax collectors.

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