Like badges worn by New York City Transit employees, identification for LIRR conductors will continue to share serial numbers, but no names.

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Mrs Merkel also risks exhausting her political credit with German voters who see no end to serial bail-outs.

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The idea that serial marathoners may earn no cardiac advantage over couch potatoes will surely amuse serial viewers of "Seinfeld" reruns.

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Of the 99 serial defaulters, 55 no longer have actively traded equity.

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He emphasized that police have no reason to believe Zimmerman was the victim of a serial killer.

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There are no psychopaths or serial killers involved (as best we can tell).

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But make no mistake: The hearts of many small investors have been broken by the serial setbacks of the past few years.

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