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In most cases, that’s a “win-win” situation, he added, but since Cloudflare helps power about a fifth of the internet’s sites, it has the potential to take them down as well when its systems fail.

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A system dependent on employer-provided health insurance left tens of millions of Americans unable to afford it on their own — if they could qualify at all.

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But the biggest risk to its ability to stay in the trillion-dollar club over the long term is the patent system.

Mysterious things keep happening — music suddenly blasts, doors slam, the lights go out and the alarm system roars in the middle of the night.

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Man-soo is a constant gardener who uses strong wires to twist roots and branches as he needs; their later use suggests the unnatural shapes into which the capitalist system twists humans.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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