Voice mail may give the wrong time-stamp, as might a fax machine.

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The computer simulation showing the time-stamp effect in the study is novel and original, said Joe Manns, assistant professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Also, if you are buying a Caltrain 8-ride ticket, the place to discover that it needs to be time-stamp validated is before you get on the train, not after it pulls away from the station.

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Mr Osborne has made populist pledges to cut stamp duty for first-time home-buyers and to exempt more people from inheritance tax.

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Recently, however, the Tory shadow chancellor of the exchequer proposed abolishing the stamp tax for most first-time home buyers, as well as removing millions of people from the jaws of Britain's death tax.

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Time will tell whether the new-look ICC can really stamp out the cancer of corruption.

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Rics blamed the worsening affordability on the reduction in the loan-to-value ratios lenders were prepared to offer first-time buyers, and the "continued burden" of stamp duty and professional fees.

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Juventus midfielder Melo was sent off 17 minutes from time for a nasty stamp on Arjen Robben as the Netherlands held on to reach the World Cup semi-finals for the fourth time.

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