Here's the part where I bemoan Mini's mission creep, but I won't, for three reasons: First, because I rather admire the gall it takes to build a full-line car company off one design.

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But the one thing that I think is very important is that we not get mission creep, and we not start suggesting that we should have troops in Iraq to blunt Iranian influence.

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And being a financial news junkie I have noticed some market commentator tendencies that I believe can go a fair way in explaining how biases creep into the system by which stocks are valued.

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Coming through the lobby again, I looked out through the doors and saw a pair of minks creep over the harbor wall.

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Easy Mode isn't as easy to use as I would have liked, though, because features and settings from the regular mode creep in now and then.

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"I think certainly people who watch Gordon Ramsay know that behavior is an extreme, but it can creep slowly into the ways the viewers react in real life, " she said.

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