While one might make a good sounding case for a different tax system, it is quite another thing to come up with a scheme that will actually gain political momentum and can be affected.

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The ARS system, backstopped by that formidable sounding team, worked very well.

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An online payment system not unlike PayPal, the company says the plain-sounding-but-ominous-in-a-sci-fi-way Credits will streamline commerce on Facebook (games first), and, with Zuckerberg and Co. taking a 30% cut of every transaction, perhaps fatten the bottom line one day.

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The very fabric of the global monetary system has within it the seeds of its own destruction, says Dehn sounding like American curmudgeon politician Ron Paul.

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Seven years ago Microsoft floated a similar-sounding scheme called Passport that granted users access to any site that agreed to use the same password system.

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The Natural Resources Defense Council, which released its "Sounding the Depths" report Monday, pushed the Navy to find out before putting the new submarine-detection system to work.

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