With Giggs and Michael Carrick dominant in the middle in the opening exchanges it was the visitors who settled the quickest, with Ronaldo in the thick of the action.

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The stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen are mobilising capital and allocating it with an efficiency that China has never seen before.

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It's a future with renewed exchanges among our people, and greater opportunities for partnership and commerce.

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The Americans reportedly calculated that the operation to recapture Hue would be a "24-hour job", but it quickly turned into a prolonged battle, with exchanges of mortar and artillery fire.

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So perhaps there's something we can do coming out of this trip - the mayor and I - to have more exchanges with people from the Shanghai area, because I believe it's very important.

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It was understandable that today's exchanges were acerbic - with Miss Goldie and with Labour's Iain Gray.

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The sale is also an admission by Microsoft that it has had trouble competing in online display advertising with Google and a raft of ad networks and exchanges.

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It is a great pity that they could not have worked through this with us, and other London exchanges, before announcing their engagement.

ECONOMIST: Clash of the titans

We are, of course, actively working with the states to implement the law, the exchanges, the other provisions of it, and believe very strongly in the argument that the Affordable Care Act in its entirety is constitutional.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Most of it is taken up by artist and model, and by the tricky exchanges of power that unfold with every sitting.

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