Without a fix, it could get worse, with Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek writing in a note to investors this week that more PC makers could start to evaluate alternatives to Windows, such as Apple's OS X and Linux.

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Prosecutors claimed her husband had fooled the 32-year-old into writing a suicide note before tying a noose around her neck.

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So even after an attacker finds a security bug that allows him access to the system, he can exploit it only by reusing commands that are already in Apple's software, a process security researcher Dino Dai Zovi has compared to writing a ransom note out of magazine clippings.

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On the other flank, many people who use e-mail decided a long time ago to go with nothing at all, or with "Hi" (followed by the recipient's name), as a reflection of the new informality and ease of note-writing.

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"He started writing at a moment of great expectations, but his works contained this important cautionary note, that things could go wrong, " Mr. Gikandi said.

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Because Reich, unlike shrill Johnny-one-note Paul Krugman, is a master of the art of persuasive writing.

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Before I go further, I should note that after I'd finished writing my original column I got back a response to questions I'd e-mailed Michael Dell.

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Writing on a Facebook page set up to help track down Mr Templeton, his family issued a note of thanks for all the support it had received over the past five and a half years.

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Though my own writing voice tends toward the ironical, cleverness was not the right note for the title of a book about the life and afterlife of a country girl who, though far from corn-pone, was more Branson than Brooklyn.

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