The lingering question for Yankees fans is whether the team should have parted with Montero.

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The lingering question for RIMM is whether or not the Blackberry 10 OS (BB10) will be its saving grace or not.

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Here's one lingering question in all of this: If you spend a grand on a laptop, why would you risk getting carrot juice all over the thing?

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There's also the lingering question of how much the U.S. can do to solve the problem alone, without other countries taking aggressive steps to curb their own pollution.

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The lingering question, to which nobody seems to have a good answer, is why it took so long to find an object that ought to be fairly common.

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And then there's the lingering question about Dennis Hastert.

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The question lingering beneath such reforms is the same: Can an exchange square the need to make a profit with a mandate to run "free and fair" markets?

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Once the Yankees look like the Yankees again, they will take their shot, with only one nagging question lingering in the background waiting to be answered: When they do return, will those aging stars have enough left to make a difference?

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And lingering behind the urgency and misery is a nagging question - which the Kenyan government is particularly keen to raise.

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The question now is whether there will be any lingering impact of the technical troubles for Amazon, which dominates the market for cloud-based computing services.

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