When all is said and done, you will have spent several hundred dollars and waited several months (if not years) to get a downloadable version of Final Cut Pro X that vaguely resembles the older software you purchased several years ago.

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"The competition is very fierce here, " says Andrew Yeung of Harbour City, which spent several hundred thousand dollars to host the duck.

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After the election, the North Carolina Free Enterprise Foundation, a nonpartisan, pro-business organization, revealed that two seemingly independent political groups had spent several hundred thousand dollars on ads against Snow a huge amount in a poor, backwoods district.

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