This has the dual effect of absolving him from financial skulduggery, and of increasing his chances of becoming president.

ECONOMIST: Mr Clean

The Internet has had a dual effect on the level of connectedness I feel with the people I know in my offline life.

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In theory, shifting the estimated 215, 000 houses these agencies hold nationwide to the rental market would have the dual effect of lifting sinking home prices and lowering rising rents.

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The Scots use this dual nationality to best effect when they emigrate.

ECONOMIST: Scottish nationalism

This action targets those people that have been using credit cards as a way to purchase at the official rate rather than the black market rate, in effect creating a dual credit card exchange regime.

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The new chipset integrates NVIDIA's nForce 680a SLI chipset with AMD's fresh Athlon 64 FX-70 dual-core processors to great effect, with clock speeds hitting 2.6, 2.8 and 3.0GHz for the FX-70, FX-72 and FX-74 processors.

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Performance-wise, its lack of a dual-core setup is heavily apparent, since there was a considerable lag between our touch input and onscreen effect.

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