He texts back to book the time he wants and gets a reply back with the reference number he needs to pay for the ticket via his mobile wallet.

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See, the hard copy tax return uses the national insurance number as "tax reference", while the online form ignores this number.

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Everything about this second iteration of the Kinect is more accurate, in fact, from the number of reference points on your skeleton it monitors down to its ability to read your heartbeat.

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"But I want to wear Lawrence Taylor for a little bit, " a reference to the uniform number of the former linebacker for the NFL's New York Giants.

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The document was shredded and its reference number was removed, he added.

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Eventually another 100 or so orders will come over the Internet or the general call center number (1-800-321-THIN) without reference to the ad.

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Of that number nearly a quarter reference the Super Bowl.

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We called the company ourselves, just before its entire site was replaced by the single-page statement, eliminating any reference to a phone number.

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We're also seeing a number of occams, potentially an obtuse reference to the RAZR (a Moto Nexus perhaps?) pinging our servers running the same build.

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Researchers can only reference a limited number of other papers when they publish, and they pick the most important ones.

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