Color, then, is another marketing tool, like an enticing image or well-written blurb on the back of a cereal box.

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That book value has been serially written down to reflect ever-weakening real estate prices, but would be written back up when housing prices start to rebound.

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"Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).

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After she checks out, her report is written up, fact-checked by Coyle, and delivered back to the client in a matter of weeks.

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But the head of Scotland's public prosecution service - Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland - hit back, questioning why Mr Cable had written to Lord Wallace rather than the Crown Office.

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The vehicle was too small to include Kaplan, but a few minutes later another television crew offered him a ride into Sarajevo in their 'soft-skinned' van, with TV written in black tape across the back.

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As Andrew Lansley sends sections of his Health and Social Care Bill back to a Commons public bill committee, to be re-written according to the dictates of the NHS Future Forum, can this be considered a triumph for Parliament, as opposed to the Government?

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