Firstly it could be a valuable short cut for me to keep up with my interest in mobile.

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I--the other guys are a little upset with me, but I cut the tour short because I'm going to China on September 2nd to adopt a child.

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Returning to her seat, a shocked Svetlana tells me that Nikolai's journey is about to be cut short.

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She sauntered away and left me facing a spare man of ordinary height, whose reddish-fair hair was cut very short and glistened in the artificial light from the hallway.

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It seems to me that the best way of seeing what the investment institutions are proposing is as a short cut to something that's not a million miles from an IPO - since these are exactly the kind of funds that would buy the shares in a stock market flotation.

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