Stocks closed lower Friday, breaking a four-day winning streak, although the Dow almost made it back to positive territory after falling quite a bit in early trading.

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And it took quite a bit longer than 9 months to knock over Libya, although that was a low-intensity war.

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"I was quite happy with our bowling, although we could possibly have bowled at the stumps a bit more, " said Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful.

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In economics, both sides accept a much larger place for markets, although the French right, like the left, still wants the state to intervene quite a bit.

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Although we still have much to learn about the impact of same-sex parenting, we do know quite a bit about marriage and child well-being.

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Although Madoff originally said that he was the sole perpetrator of the fraud, prosecutors allege that he had quite a bit of help to falsify records and keep the scam going until four years ago.

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