The school has briefed you on contingencies, and your emergency-contact cards have been filed in triplicate.

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Dispatches were sent in triplicate because the French knew some would be captured and, naturally, the documents were in code.

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If China were building infrastructure projects in triplicate, it might portend that China was overbuilding at a faster pace than Dubai.

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That hardly sounds like an underutilized airport with wasted investment in triplicate.

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We're still using paper -- we're still filing things in triplicate.

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Secretaries made copies in triplicate, in case the project was uncovered, even using the typewriters and carbon paper of the Judenrat, the Jewish council set up by the Germans.

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In India, where things too often are still done in triplicate, Andhra Pradesh's pioneering e-seva system lets people pay their utility bills, transfer money, buy railway tickets and so on.

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Of course, the new format will cost more to produce than your standard next-gen disc, and we're not quite sure this isn't all madness to begin with, but we suppose we'll have to play the game if we don't want to end up buying every title in triplicate.

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