It being a video game, this story is told through a long slog against legions of enemies that will kill the Chief almost as many times as he kills them.

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It is a different story with their competitors in the long-haul railroad sector, where all companies have produced a positive three-month rate of return and there has been a 14.4% collective price rise in the last three months.

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For those concerned about carbon emissions, that's half way to a good news story, as gas-burning is less dirty than coal, but it's still a long way short of good for the environment.

BBC: Energy bills, and loose change

As with Katrina, there is a back story for government's dysfunction: It's a long saga involving the fervent renunciation of the idea of financial regulation, bought-and-paid-for tax favors, confusion about how globalization affects money markets, a general ignorance about the modern financial world and a stunning lack of common sense.

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Controlled admissions won't work (Has a controlled admission ever worked?) This is a long, complicated, ugly, emotional story, and it needs to scrape down to the details.

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To make a long story short, cloud computing is (almost) the future of IT.

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