And, most patriarchal though it may sound, almost misogynistic, one way for the poorer to make the leap from poor to rich is by marrying up.

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In the world of the internet, operators are looking at ways of marrying up the algorithms that find the shortest path through a network and those that control the speed with which information flows.

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At the town hall volunteers gathered names and car registrations to ease the task of marrying-up owners with vehicles in daylight.

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