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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Take a gander at these figures and use your own common sense.

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The best course of action is to use some basic common sense practices of protecting your personal information, and to only use secure sites.

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Use common sense and treat your clients or prospects with respect.

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Use common sense, but vow to make travel choices that speak to you and your values, not other people's fears.

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