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So this is a combination how-to and how-come piece about those three categories of media and how they can vastly improve the way advertisers small and large approach advertising.
Kirk Cheyfitz: Advertising's Future Is 3 Simple Words: Paid. Owned. Earned. Kirk Cheyfitz 2010
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So this is a combination how-to and how-come piece about those three categories of media and how they can vastly improve the way advertisers small and large approach advertising.
Kirk Cheyfitz: Advertising's Future Is 3 Simple Words: Paid. Owned. Earned. Kirk Cheyfitz 2010
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So this is a combination how-to and how-come piece about those three categories of media and how they can vastly improve the way advertisers small and large approach advertising.
Kirk Cheyfitz: Advertising's Future Is 3 Simple Words: Paid. Owned. Earned. Kirk Cheyfitz 2010
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So....how-come, we can't say the same for Barak Obama as a Muslim.
Obama, Farrakhan, and how Hillary Clinton took the opening and then squandered it. Ann Althouse 2008
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This refusal by the e-voting companies brings to mind numerous troubling "how-come" questions which, as long as they remain unanswered, must be added to the weight of evidence of electoral fraud ..
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I holler over dere to Maggie house en ax her how-come de church bell tollin, but she couldn 'tell me nothin bout it.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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I recollects, when I would be workin round de white folks, dey would ax me how-come I been have dem kind of way bout me what was different from de other colored people.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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You see, she was a stranger to de country bout dere fore freedom come en she been know dat woman en dat how-come she went wid her.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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My daddy belonged to Miss Betty father en dat how-come she know dere ain 'much difference in us age.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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It just like dis, dey couldn 'conceal demselves in de open fields en dat how-come we catch em so easy.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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