Now this was a foolish, comical gaffe, though perhaps not a global crisis Beckett's comments were absurd, but the condemnations also got a little heated and growly, and after a while, the whole thing started to sound like an argument about Joss Whedon's movies taking place on a bus to chess camp.

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In the two years or so since the consent orders that started the whole thing were originally signed in April of 2011, the banks rarely included any disclosures in Qs or Ks of the potential liabilities to borrowers for the reviews.

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When I started the whole branding thing, I thought my fans could come to this great town, and back then it was so inexpensive.

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But a labor-management dispute led to a worker slowdown soon after the campaign started, causing the whole thing to blow up.

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The whole thing makes me laugh because ever since I started reporting on Wall Street and financial services firms in the 1980s, FINRA, then known as the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), had a reputation for being impotent.

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In OneNote, at least, the pen seems to be aware of what you mean to erase: after drawing an Engadget logo in blue ink, we started to erase it and after a few swipes, the whole thing disappeared from the screen.

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"You reach a point where people get dulled to the whole thing and stop listening to the attacks, " acknowledged Fletcher, who said Baesler started it and he was forced to respond.

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