Sadly, due to the nature of the seawater, even when the water has dried, what is left of his split-level ranch-style home will still smell like the bay.

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He doesn't spare his former coworkers from criticism, though: he warns that the split between the Windows 8-style UI and the traditional desktop is potentially confusing, notes the absence of useful Android and iOS features like touch-friendly app folders, and doesn't find the conventional Windows interface very practical with fingers alone.

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The Institute for Policy Innovation released a study in 2003 that showed that a Ryan-Sununu-style personal account, if split between corporate bonds and equities, would yield roughly two-thirds more in benefits than Social Security promises.

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To overcome the problem of backward-compatibility, modern x86 chips such as the Pentium are able to take x86-style instructions from old software and split them up into several smaller micro-operations which lend themselves better to performance-enhancing trickery.

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In Indian style discussions on the living room floor, the team split on where to go next.

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