Gold and the companies that mine it have been getting a lot of attention lately.

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It has always been a maxim of mine that you can learn a lot from other marketers, especially larger ones who clearly put money into marketing and research.

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The shared family computer contains a lot of stuff that is mine, including music, Word documents, and photos.

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When friends of mine were last on the street, there was still a lot of angry young guys with iron bars drifting about.

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But after meeting with the creators of the in-lid CDs, Strategic Integration, Arnold saw a lot of potential and decided he was the guy to mine it.

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It means an awful lot to look at the names on that trophy and put mine alongside them.

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Or, a friend of mine, white, recently told me that her boys are attending a mostly black public school and making a lot of friends -- but also picking up their way of using the N-word as a marker of fellowship.

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Although it does in fact have a lot of relevance to the modern world: the taxation of palladium and or rhodium exports from the Norilsk mine are informed by it, just as one example.

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