Unfortunately, investors can also expect a tidal wave of accounting minutiae from the regulators, as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) get on the stick.

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"I very much hope that the government will stick to its guns and get this through, because there is nothing else on offer to the universities, " he said.

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Here at Mixed Signals when we get a lot of comments on a post we like to stick with the topic (or, depending on your point of view, flog it to death).

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Pretty soon hundreds of millions of people will be able to stick their cell phones on the dash and never get lost or need a separate device.

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Of coarse, you will have to put the weenies on a stick as long as a football field to get close enough to roast them without being roasted yourself.

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The question is, will customers agree, or will they get burned out on multiple social media platforms and stick with Facebook and Twitter?

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But it does get at the heart of what makes Buffett Buffett: an ability to hone in on a small core of fundamental principles and stick with them even when they are unpopular.

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