Despite all this, Mr Bush actually did quite well.

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Despite all this turmoil, the company maintains it's still well positioned to sell programming guide technology to TV services and set-top box makers.

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But his first run at the subject, which grew out of a series of lectures delivered in early 2006 and comes out in Britain later this month after being published in America last September, holds up remarkably well despite all that has happened.

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