Meanwhile, the rest of us continue to struggle with the problems users face even in a Windows 7 world: sporadic freezing, the occasional printer that disappears from our network, the sudden shutdown of Word when in the middle of a document.

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He not only misled Americans about the nature of the mandate but also broke his word about raising taxes on the middle class.

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And back before she was a newly-elected Senator, Elizabeth Warren was trying to get the word out about the nastiness of credit card debt ruining the middle class.

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Even with details about the explosion unclear, tensions ran high in the volatile region Sunday amid word of the reported attack, which was condemned by some officials across the Middle East.

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But word-of-mouth marketing works a lot better among young chatterboxes than it does among middle-aged recluses.

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Labour leader Ed Miliband, whose phrase "squeezed middle" - referring to those hit hardest by falling living standards - was word of the year in 2011, made the first recorded use of omnishambles in the House of Commons in April.

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But perhaps the final word should go to Australian fast bowler Brett Lee, who enjoyed many a fierce battle with Dravid in the middle.

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Sadia, for example, is a Brazilian frozen-foods company that has become a household name in the Middle East, helped perhaps by its name's similarity to sa'ada, the Arabic word for happiness.

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