He's happiest inventing eccentric word combinations like a musical linguist toying with strange sounds.

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Combinations like those of Wells Fargo and Wachovia, Lloyds TSB and HBOS, Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank have bloated the biggest institutions, not slimmed them.

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It is always interesting to see what clues the selection offers about the possible make-up of the Test team and there are a couple of combinations that look like they might be used in the Tests.

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His computer would tell him which combinations were most likely to smell like the real thing.

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The internet was coming, no thanks to him, and like a good opportunist he put together new combinations of existing components to take most advantage of it for Apple.

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Houston sees this new addition to Dropbox as yet another step toward making our digital lives flow more easily between the myriad of hardware and software combinations that make simple tasks, like sharing, a big headache.

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The mixed bag has different styles and color combinations, but always costs less than a like amount and selection of individual pairs.

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Pro basketball teams are employing stat gurus who look past traditional stats like scoring and rebounding while measuring the effectiveness of various lineup combinations.

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Each level plays like a mini-sandbox, full of tunnels, rooftop perches, sniper posts and other myriad combinations of ways to bring the target down.

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