By now, you've probably plotted out your holiday shopping strategy on the major purchases if you're the type that plans ahead.

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But whether or not the London organizing committee had chosen to work with a charity-based reseller, the real problem was its failure to set up any type of efficient, secondary market plan ahead of time.

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He pointed out this was not the type of selling usually undertaken for profit-taking ahead of year-end.

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Despite the fact that we never mastered the keyboard, we were still able to frequently type emails and text messages fast enough to get ahead of the i607's ability to process individual characters, leading to a frustrating lag between what you're typing and what you see.

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Okay, everyone will have to become an entrepreneur (or at least develop entrepreneurial-type thinking and action), to succeed in the years ahead, you concede, given what is happening in the economy.

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