And Grant sprung to the defence of out-of-form goalkeeper Rob Green, whose failure to hold on to a Didier Drogba free-kick that led to Chelsea's goal.

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And we could hold on to them all like threads that form a tapestry.

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But the truly creative and destructive forces of the cloud are also beginning to take hold on the customer side in the form of fresh thinking about what IT should be and what it can achieve, new products and services and business models made possible by and those freed-up IT dollars, and new ideas unlocked by those innovative approaches.

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Lucent, Cisco and Nortel all keenly focus on the coming shift to IP-over-optical networking, but they hold divergent views on when and in what form it will arrive.

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Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's self-appointed president, and Atal Behari Vajpayee, India's prime minister, could not agree on any form of joint statement, or even to hold a press conference explaining what had gone wrong.

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Credit unions can hold the loans on their books or form consortiums that allow them to share the risk.

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