Oddly for that hour, I was watching TV (NCIS on CBS).

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"I actually feel more productive reading things online and on social media like Twitter and Facebook than if I was just sitting and watching a TV show, " she said.

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And today I was playing almost three hours on court, and my opponent was watching the TV in the locker room.

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"I got a letter from TV Licensing to tell me that I was behaving in an illegal manner by watching television in my residence, " he said.

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On the night of the attack, I was watching the cricket match between India and England on TV in the bar upstairs with my brother, Farzad.

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"I was sitting about six o'clock in the living room, watching TV, and I noticed a woman walking past the window with two dogs, " she said.

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By 2007, when I was juggling a two-year-old and a newborn, a little TV watching in the pre-early morning seemed pretty appealing.

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Even were there no negative side effects to watching TV, this was during the period of my career as an entrepreneur when I was working 90 hour weeks and not getting paid.

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After spending a lot of time looking at the actual data coming from the federal government, I actually wrote on the subject in 2007 after watching Bernanke on TV, and watching how his face was saying one thing and his words were saying another.

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