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And yes, I have the "backoff" program, which makes for ensuring a speedy sync.
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Back in the 80's, Lockmart & some others were very much into trying to persuade NASA to backoff oversight of Shuttle & to just let the contractors run the show & they'll send NASA a status report & a tab for services rendered (i.e. a quasi-deregulation of NASA or a NASA subsidized space program ala SpaceX).
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Baganda people can not backoff for this president.
Global Voices in English » Uganda: Nine Dead in Kampala Riots 2009
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My 6 year old grand son would have known when to backoff.
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Commentators on a mailing list run by civil liberties lobby Electronic Frontiers Australia point to the resemblance between the text of S92A and Section 116AG and AH of the Australian Federal Copyright Act. They suggest the New Zealand government backoff may affect a case to be tried later this year, between the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) and ISP iiNet.
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Now, she need to backoff and support Obama jean-TX
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They suggest the New Zealand government backoff may affect a case to be tried later this year, between the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft AFACT and ISP iiNet.
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There are signs that Obama's team has given the word to backoff Palin due to backlash against the MSM.
On Sarah Palin avoiding interviews for now... and the dumbest things Obama and McCain have said. Ann Althouse 2008
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August 11th, 2008 at 2: 53 pm PDT trying again …. in 5: 41 minutes it is not an exponential backoff algorithm .. does anybody know? reply
Systemwide GMail Outage Michael Arrington 2005
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Especially since thirty minutes ago, he'd decided to backoff.
Hot And Bothered Leigh, Jo 1999
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