With no other volunteers on the cards it's hard to see what plan B might be.

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And it's important to understand that part of the reason that they are borrowing on their homes, they're borrowing on credit cards, is that the banks and financial institutions have dominated policy in Washington.

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Still, with both Microsoft and Sony's cards on the table, it's clear that Nintendo is about to take another hit.

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And so it's important, I think, to constantly have our cards out on the table and welcome challenges and welcome questions.

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"It was just putting the cards on the table, saying here's this thing happening in America, " says Josh Reynolds, president, referring to the health law.

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Wind's parent Globalive has declined comment, while Fongo tells us it's waiting on a formal response before putting more of its cards on the table.

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In a competition between them it took 72 hours to record all the data on to Hollerith's punched cards, which was not vastly faster than the 144 hours and 100 hours taken by the other two machines.

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It's useful to have cards with your name and job title printed in Chinese on the reverse.

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"It's basically the same technology as credit cards, " Woo said in an interview here on Thursday.

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However, Izumi Kawanishi has made it no secret that he wants email on the PSP, and a keyboard would be quite a nicety if that's in the cards.

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