Jones topped England's bowling average in their 2005 Ashes triumph and admitted he had mixed feelings over leaving the Welsh county in the first place.

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Later Pardew received a mixed reception as he took up his place in home team's dugout ahead of kick-off.

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The owners, Suzan and Yoni, form a unique Arab-Jewish partnership, but the cross-cultural business arrangement does not seem out of place in Haifa, a mixed city where Arabs and Jews mingle freely, seemingly unaware of the ethnic tensions simmering in other parts of Israel and the Palestinian territories.

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However, the defending British visually-impaired mixed coxed fours boat, easily booked their place in Saturday's final - winning the semi-final by 13 seconds.

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But egalitarian did not mean equal: in mixed clubs, boys tended to charge about the place, keeping the girls out of the billiards room and hiding the table-tennis balls.

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The supply restriction also makes Washington a more expensive place to live, forces people to commute longer distances, and discourages mixed uses in the downtown core when the next marginal square foot of space always makes the most money as office, why build apartments downtown?

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Both concluded that there are significant systemic and structural problems with the Army's approach to gender integration and mixed-gender training as well as the "policies, procedures (and) reporting" methods currently in place.

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