No one sought to document these deaths systematically, and no one has devised a method of undertaking a retrospective count.

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Interestingly, Telecom's ultimate plan is still to migrate to LTE -- but considering its rather massive footprint and subscriber count, there's method in the madness of supporting an interim ultra high-speed standard like Rev.

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Because the 1990 Census undercounted millions of Americans, mostly minorities, the Clinton administration proposed the sampling method as a way of ensuring a more accurate count in 2000.

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