We are expressly not speaking here of automatic military weapons which rapid-fire lots of bullets with a single trigger pull.

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We American voters might respond that most of us do not receive automatic inflation adjustments to our earnings and we are expected to tighten our belts when times are tough and our personal debt has gotten out of control.

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We feel that the Automatic Qualifying (AQ) conferences are on a relatively even playing field, and are therefore more readily comparable.

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