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However, when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into one of Milos oldest colleagues and exposes new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out whos holding the strings once and for all.
The Tourist: Summary and book reviews of The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer. 2009
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George himself has buried his own animal appetites in books, although Jess's entry into his life - and the incursion of the Internet into the book trade - is making George rethink his monastic ways and the all-too-rare pleasures of reuniting a customer with a long-sought-after copy of, say, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."
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But they're at least five times as pricey as the long-sought-after $100 student laptop.
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But they're at least five times as pricey as the long-sought-after $100 student laptop.
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An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
Call Sarah Connor: Military Supercomputer Sets Record | Disinformation 2008
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In the twice-annual rankings called the Top 500 list, published on Wednesday morning, the machine dubbed Roadrunner reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
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In the twice-annual rankings called the Top 500 list, published on Wednesday morning, the machine dubbed Roadrunner reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
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The governor said he would work with legislators to try to enact some of his long-sought-after spending cuts.
On Way Out, Schwarzenegger Proposes Cuts Stu Woo 2010
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It's simply not surprising that Obama might keep troops on the ground if Saddam Hussein rises from the dead and joins forces with Osama bin Laden to deploy long-sought-after weapons of mass destruction from secret Iraqi ICBMs.
Obama On Withdrawal From Iraq: "I Reserve Right As Commander In Chief To Assess Situation" 2009
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In the end it was an unlikely, some would say pedestrian, place in which to find the long-sought-after Holy Grail.
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