The book effort suffered a setback this week when a federal judge in New York rejected a deal between Google and publishers that would have blessed the scanning of out-of-print books whose copyright holders are unknown.

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He was struggling to get the ball off the square and after crawling to 11 from 23 deliveries, it was almost a blessed relief when he holed out on the cover-point boundary.

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Historically, the kulich were carried to church and set out on long tables to be blessed by a priest.

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And after years and years of working my guts out day after day, I was blessed enough to sell my company in March of last year, giving me the freedom necessary to pursue my dream.

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Yeah, there's a cooked Windows Mobile 6 ROM floating around for the now-ancient Apache, but it ain't official -- and let's be honest, there's a good contingent of folks out there that like their updates officially blessed by the powers that be.

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As a nation we are blessed with a talent for being individuals who are not afraid to stick out from the crowd.

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Out of basketball before the Knicks came calling, Martin said he considers himself "blessed" to be back on the court and playing for a contender.

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Last month, just days after HP voters apparently blessed the Compaq merger (the final tally is still pending), Hewlett-Packard quietly rolled out its first Indigo printers-awesome machines that deliver high-quality color prints at up to 500 pages a minute.

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In 2006, Blessed Edward Jones Catholic high school was also judged to be failing, but improved enough to be taken out of special measures by June last year.

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