Except for talk of real estate prices in Beijing and Shanghai, no topic has managers of private equity funds more engaged and energized than RMB funds.

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The 41 adopted children all live in the industrial sprawl surrounding Brescia but no-one, certainly not the parents, nor the judges in charge of adoptions wants to talk except to say the adoptions were handled correctly and will stand.

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You could blow all this off as trash talk, except it is nice to see a little swagger at HP.

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"I talk Spanish at home, except with my brothers, with them I speak English, " says Adriana, a teenager at Bell High School in East Los Angeles, California.

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That's not to talk about any previous administration, except for quite some time the middle class has thought that Washington was looking out for Washington and the big special interests, and not looking out for them.

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Except in Albania and Kosovo, there has been more talk than cash.

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These were coveted jobs, but over time they had become so dangerous that Othman and Laith could talk candidly about their lives with no one except each other.

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There was no talk in the chamber about energy, Social Security, Iraq or anything except judges and the rules that govern the Senate.

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Because sizes run a bit differently than shoes, typically half a size smaller, he likes to talk to every new costumer and while his site features great photography and details, you cannot order except by phone.

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