Your awareness and vigilance can help tremendously, so please use your common sense and report suspicious packages, vehicles, or activities to local law enforcement.

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So use a little common sense.

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Those made by his firm use advanced laser-fluorescence technology: more accurate, simpler, cheaper and more robust, he says, than the gas-chromatography apparatus in common use so far.

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So, use spell check and common sense.

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At the same time, all markets can't be different, there is a need to have a common layer so that you can use the same services such as stock tickers and e-mail notification in every device.

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So umbrella use is associated with wet weather, but common sense tells us umbrellas don't cause rainfall.

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The practice of jumping parties from election to election is so common in Pakistan that a term is in use: "lota, " which means a round water jug with a pointy snout.

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And of course, they hope to save money over competitors by being the first to use common wireless services--calling, text messaging, Internet access and so on.

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The jury soon became standard in criminal and civil cases at common law, and its use spread with the British empire, nowhere more so than in the American colonies.

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This cemented Lynch as the everyman's hero because the book convinced millions of investors that you didn't need to be a quant or investing savant to find so-called "10 bagger" stocks (stocks that go up tenfold.) Just use common sense and invest in things you see everyday and understand.

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