If you circle a word on the legal pad and tap one of the controls on the CrossPad, the computer will designate that particular word a "key word" and translate it into text that it can later retrieve when you ask it to search for topics.

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Derived from the Greek word for "circle, " an encyclical is among the church's most authoritative teaching documents.

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Travis and others are trying to get the word out to voters to fill in the ovals and not to circle them, and not to vote for more than one candidate per race.

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But after eBay became the preferred place on the web to trade collectibles in the late 1990s, largely through word of mouth, it quickly entered a virtuous circle in which more buyers attracted more sellers, who attracted yet more sellers, and so on.

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