One bot, for example, would spit out a word it had created for the center of the maze ("jaya"), sending both of them off on a "race" to find that spot.

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The word "Obama" appears nowhere in the Center's study, but it doesn't dodge the fact that these high unemployment numbers have persisted the past four years.

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The word was that he might have gone to the convention center, where thousands of others sought shelter.

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This was, in a word rarely heard behind the curved crimson storefront windows of Christie's new Rockefeller Center headquarters, pure chutzpah.

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The military got first word of the American Airlines Flight 11 hijacking nine minutes before it hit the World Trade Center.

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The Dow Jones industrial average soared 500 points late in the day Friday after word that Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the person at the center of all the negotiations over troubled banks in the last few months, would be the next Treasury Secretary.

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"In a word, it's a great medication, " says Jed Black, a doctor at Stanford University's Center for Narcolepsy.

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