At present, the telephone companies offer it only to people who live within three miles of one of their exchanges.

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The firm's chief executive, Greg Wasson, says that two-thirds of all Americans live within three miles of one of his shops.

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While ants are usually highly territorial, those living within each super-colony are tolerant of one another, even if they live tens or hundreds of kilometres apart.

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The company currently employs three different fleets of drivers: long-haul truckers who live in one city but can travel all over the country, regional drivers who drive within a 500-mile radius of their homes, and dedicated fleets for specific customers.

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Most shopping occurs within a ten-mile radius of where people live and 35% of those purchases come from one store.

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Albums like Jazz at Oberlin and Jazz at the College of the Pacific, recorded live before enthusiastic audiences, made the group one of the most popular in the country, and within a few years Brubeck would appear on the cover of Time magazine.

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The State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) presents one of the few, if not the only, live operational model of cloud brokerage use within a government context.

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