During the demonstration of RAD for the Server, Dave Mendlen, Visual Studio product planner, built what he called a "middle-tier business object" for a wine-selling Web site using six lines of code, an operation that he said would take "hundreds of lines of code" with the current version of Visual Basic 6.

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However during the final session, MEPs broadly rejected this, preferring enhanced co-operation, along the lines of the Schengen agreement on border controls.

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Some of the listed numbers were lines that FBI counterintelligence used to keep track of the suspected Israeli spy operation.

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Long lines of cherry-picker trucks thundered east, to help with what is expected to be a vast clean-up operation.

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