If you had guessed New York's inventive graffiti artists might have started mocking the measures, you would have been wrong.

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Every time you call the company, you must wait from 20-40 minutes to even have your call answered and often you have been shunted to the wrong department.

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Are you feeling that you are in the wrong job even though you have only been with the company for less than a year?

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And that proved to be correct, but it almost could not have been wrong, because you can't sustain it.

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The answer is you have to be satisfied that he's been rehabilitated as to what he did wrong, and then you move on.

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It tells them that what they have been taught previously is wrong: You cannot just go and kill someone.

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Still, there's entirely too much competition in this space to do customers wrong -- have any of you been battling with Michael Bay's favorite programming provider over these very issues?

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Anything that you use that is other than the actual direction of the price itself has the potential to steer you down the wrong path, and almost all blowups in history have been a result of people thinking something was really undervalued, and they buy more and more of it.

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The collective gasp you hear is the U.S. healthcare industry asking: Have we been wrong all along?

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Kashagan has been a classic case of what can go wrong when you have too many cooks in the kitchen.

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