And while large-scale robberies are relatively rare, nearly every nickel-and-dime dealer has a story to tell about small-time thugs who make off with a couple thousand dollars' worth of merchandise.

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Men and women infected with HIV reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by taking oral antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems were relatively healthy, according to findings from a large-scale clinical study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

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Poland's economy grew by around 4% last year and large-scale luxury goods companies have been relatively untouched by the global economic downturn.

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Web sites and computer networks have been targeted by hackers for decades, although large-scale, coordinated cyberattacks are still a relatively new phenomenon.

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Large-scale repurchases, by contrast, are the province of a relatively few firms.

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In its SEC filing, Capital Trust said the "retrenchment" of the banks and their relatively conservative lending practices today "have created a large scale opportunity" to make commercial-real-estate loans.

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