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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To release (gold) from an inactive status and return it to use as a backing for credit and new currency.

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  • Please note that the objects you store in this dictionary have to be serializable, or else you will get an exception during the deactivating event about the inability of the operating system to sterilize or desterilize your object. best practices recommend that you store transient page data in the State dictionary during the

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