Obviously I would have loved to play a few more here and be the winner, but that's the way it goes.

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And so it's hard to see where this one goes from here.

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We have certainly seen some good news coming out of China here this week in terms of economic growth, and it seems as China goes, the copper market goes.

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It batches one shipment from here and another shipment from there into a full trainload that goes across the country.

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And you know, it goes back to something again that I want to just talk about here briefly, because a lot of us are really confused about this Saudi thing.

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The Tablet of London, a well-known English Catholic publication, recently published a series of jokes about various groups within the Catholic Church, and here's how the one on Opus Dei goes: How many members of Opus Dei does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

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One thing that the House could do in its few days here in Washington before it goes off again on recess is follow the Senate's lead and pass a tax cut -- an extension of a tax cut or tax cuts -- for the middle class, 98 percent of the American people.

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