It is one of the world's largest entertainment companies and the fount from which recent Oscar winner "Argo" sprang.

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Holder of patents covering everything from color television to the MP3 audio-compression format, Thomson has been selling off its loss-ridden television business to focus on becoming the fount of everything digital, from cameras to DVD duplication, for the entertainment industry.

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It will be in places like Kandahar city, the country's second-biggest and the main fount of the Taliban, where the strategy will be most severely tested.

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The Sacred Fount, The Wings of the Dove.

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If the Treasury Department gets its way and imposes tougher scrutiny on nonbank financial institutions, GE's finance business might become even more of a capital sink instead of the cash fount it was when money was cheap.

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Yet the Riche was still a fount of inspiration.

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But both to victims of abuse and to people who observe church affairs from outside, the spate of disclosures has mocked the Vatican's claim to be a fount of moral authority and have made it harder to see why the church insists on restricting the priesthood to celibate males.

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Who knows, they may even believe that a fount of profitability lies around the corner.

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Talleyrand's name, to admirers, was a byword for diplomatic prowess: a brilliant political mind, a negotiator of unsurpassed skill and a tireless worker for the interests of France not to overlook a fount of worldly bons mots.

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