Is Facebook about to put a toll booth on the social media superhighway?

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In the latter example, it reacquired a fix by the time I hit the toll booth on the other side.

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Systems also keep money from the hands of larcenous toll booth employees.

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Intellectual Ventures, which has assembled a massive portfolio of patents, mostly through purchase by its well funded backers, has created a huge toll booth that, despite claims of its management, inhibits rather than supports innovation.

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As Dibble explained in a September 14 interview, Aria Systems operates what amounts to a toll booth getting paid by companies based on the number of its accounts or the dollar value of its billings.

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The thermostat was kept at bone-chilling temperatures, we drove our green Ford Fairlaine until it (literally) burst into flames at a toll booth and I wore a never-ending supply of hand-me-downs from a cousin named Amy whom I had never met.

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Claudio Uberti is an Argentinean and the director of a government agency that since November, 2003 controls all freeway concessions (OCCOVI) and is in charge of collecting the fees on every toll booth of every road, highway and bridge in the country.

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They approach a toll booth.

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Advanced satellite tracking technologies allow "open road" tolling, in which motorists would be charged per mile of road used -- just as consumers are charged per kilowatt hour for electricity, per gallon of water, or per minute of cell phone use -- without the backup at the toll booth.

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