It is only when Turandot's character merges with that of Liu, Calaf's devoted slave-girl who has killed herself, that she gives up everything to follow her prince.

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The first agreement merges U.S. and Canadian security concerns with our mutual interest in keeping our border as open as possible to legitimate commerce and travel.

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The stock's liquidity should increase when parent Telecom Italia merges Tele Nordeste later this year with Tele Celular Sul, an operator it owns in southern Brazil.

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Otherwise, the Harbour Route continues along Atlantic Avenue as it merges with the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the centrepiece of Boston's newly revitalised waterfront.

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Only seven of the 26 models in Chrysler's lineup are likely to be retained if General Motors merges with Chrysler, predicts consulting firm Grant Thornton LLC.

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There's also a new in-camera HDR mode which merges two back-to-back shots (one underexposed and the other overexposed) in order to retain additional shadow and highlight detail.

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There's always a possibility when a company is bought or merges or goes bankrupt and someone else picks up the pieces that there will be a short-term disruption as systems are intertwined.

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The team at Breakfast NY never leaves us hungry when it merges the digital and physical worlds -- and this time it's created something that hits it out of the park for the start of this year's US baseball season.

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Here again, live action merges seamlessly with digital artistry -- human horsemen by the thousands riding against swarms of Sauron's orcs, whose ranks are augmented by mountainous, mastodonish creatures called Mumakil, plus Fellbeast dragons that swoop down on their prey like Stuka bombers.

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