The wire story says Dell himself would take a majority stake in the company, with Silver Lake and Microsoft to become minority investors.

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The AP wire story that was picked up by a number of publications last Friday went on to describe that the two campaigns responded like they had been handed hot rocks.

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The widely hailed novelistic style of HBO's The Wire saw story arcs rise and fall across series.

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On an out-of-town trip Carlsbad state senator Joseph Gant Jr. read a wire- service story -- by chance -- about the Lyons fiasco and got on the telephone to other Carlsbad influentials.

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Yesterday, as I pointed out in a post, the news wire wrote a story asserting that NetApp might want to buy CommVault or Quantum as it looks for ways to complete with storage rival EMC.

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The original story came from Bloomberg, and the wire service clearly overplayed their hand in an effort to create a scoop.

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As the story winds down, Ascher allows the high-wire act of the absurd and the sacred to descend to earth.

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The wire service said the investigation into its records appears related to an AP story about a thwarted terrorist plot in Yemen to bomb an airplane bound for the United States.

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And this time (this all took place a few weeks ago, before the AIRBNB story broke) I have hesitated and felt nervous about sending a wire transfer for a vacation rental that is not listed anywhere on any website.

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