It's worse for me to design a hybrid type of structure that is trying to tastefully fit in.

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Nor are hybrid threats really the type of challenge that some in the Obama Administration and now the QDR want to make it out to be.

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The term hybrid is used because this type of rocket motor uses neither all-liquid fuel nor all-solid fuel, but a combination of both.

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Unlike two-way, three-way, four-way or so-called "hybrid" armature driver (hearing aid type) earphones, there are no electronic or comb filtering artifacts, no phase issues, and no crossover dropouts.

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Lin was deliberately vague in his descriptions of the device, declining to specify whether it will be a smartphone or a tablet or some type of never-before-seen hybrid of the two.

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Having tried and failed to get anywhere with incremental changes in recent years, Rhode Island will soon have a hybrid pension structure that puts the bulk of contributions into a 401(k)-type plan that public workers can take with them to other jobs.

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