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  • Unless enough users and consumers making enough complaints, the government will not be quick enough to catch-on or even step in to settle the issue for good.

    The Case of AT&T’s Incredible Shrinking Broadband Tiers 2009

  • Tapping into PassionWill social media advertising catch-on around the world?

    Advertisers Join the Search for Friends Online 2010

  • At a point, somewhere in the blissful encounters of such a ripe party, pulsating with excited life on the decks of the three sister ships tied side by side, Billy began attempting to refrain from what he thought others might catch-on to see as blatant gockking.

    Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 1 2009

  • After a while, the rest of the population catch-on and want a piece of the pie.

    How to Survive the Recession 2008

  • Uh Oh. And, they are finally starting to catch-on they are really stooges for electing repubicans over the Roe\Wade issue No payoff Suckers.

    Think Progress » ‘As Many as a Half a Dozen’ Members of Congress May Be Involved in Prostitution Scandal 2006

  • Further, the internal characteristics of the Spanish romances, though, undoubtedly, they might never have come into existence at all but for the French, and though there is a very slight "catch-on" of _Amadis_ itself to the universally popular Arthurian legend, are not in the least like those of French or English.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

  • Also, they knew, as they always do, the poor ADP jobs number in advance--we lost 37,000 private payrolls--so that's why they got most of their weekly-buying done yesterday: They know that if the market advances in the face of unequivocally, incontrovertibly bad economic news that even MORE people will catch-on to what's really happening--Obama and the PPT are driving and sustaining stock prices.

    Stocks mixed, Treasury yields drop after jobs data - latimes.com 2010

  • Reading over posts on many, many threads on numerous sites, it appears, if nothing else, that many folks are beginning to suspect something rotten has cometh our way-some even are beginning to catch-on even further .... but so what, he has been elected already.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • I have to believe that after the first few times, even the dullest, slowest "subject" is going to catch-on to the fact he / she is not really going to drown, I've been through this before ...

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Many are already getting together where they live-and-breathe to respond to it in beneficially effective ways …. not waiting for those "in-power" to catch-on and catch-up.

    Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines 2009

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