This is the explanation for these various bids for the Nortel, IBM, Motorola Mobile, patent stashes.

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Dozens of libraries with big budgets have since been bidding up the stashes in authorial attics.

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Now that many emerging economies have built up vast stashes of foreign-exchange reserves that role is dramatically diminished.

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Indeed British tax evaders might be well advised to plant their stashes elsewhere.

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Officials said the defectors provided limited information, and there was no indication they could lead troops to potential stashes of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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Security forces may have been mindful of the fact that some households in his town, Awamiyeh, were known to have stashes of guns smuggled in from Yemen and Iraq.

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Back at his tiny 9th story walk-up, entirely subsidized by the government, Tam stashes his paper trash in a corner under a table until he makes his weekly trek to the recycler.

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For them, the formal ski area effectively serves as a jumping-off point, a gateway to vast tracts of challenging off-piste terrain studded with cliff drops, creamy powder stashes, edge-of-your-seat steeps and wide, rolling slopes.

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