"They'll figure it out and get it all squared away, " said Ridgely Albaugh of Lower Marlboro, Maryland.

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But how can this be squared with all the old medieval churches like Gandzasar?

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How, though, can all this modernisation be squared with the maintenance of what every senior official says is the capital's great quality, its function as the ancient vessel of Chinese history and culture?

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This past week, New Hampshire voters got the chance to judge all the major presidential candidates - eight Democrats debated in Manchester last Sunday, 10 Republicans squared off there two days later.

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"All deposit insurance is a moral hazard, and brokered deposits are a moral hazard, squared, " says Alex Pollock, a former head of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago and now a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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The result is Life Squared (Life2) -- a mock business, mock home and mock cafe, all fitted with new technologies to show visitors the types of innovations that Microsoft believes will make their lives easier.

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