The conversations reveal the kind of hat they want, from reserved to loud and crazy.

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But George's mother had appeared, Ann Spaulding, a handsome older woman sporting veils and a medieval hennin, a conical kind of hat.

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Their investment will also enable Red Hat to build the kind of support staff needed to win the confidence of corporate customers.

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When he appears, the Toaster is typically shrouded in a long coat, his head covered with some kind of hat and a scarf that drapes across his face, the spotters say.

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If showy residential towers are now old hat (if often empty) in an increasing number of Chinese cities, these kind of digs are still new to much of rising India.

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But putting your financial consultant hat on there, is there any general guidance about how people should react to this kind of instability?

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