I'd argue that reaching that pinnacle is a mixed blessing.
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A new normal For Laura, diagnosis was a mixed blessing.
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However, declining oil prices were a mixed blessing for CST.
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Trump's close involvement could prove a mixed blessing for Biegun.
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In that regard, Mr. Johnson's deal is a mixed blessing.
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At the time, the waterfront seemed like a mixed blessing.
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This division has been a mixed blessing for both parties.
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For Impossible, the spike in demand has been a mixed blessing.
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The move is a mixed blessing for Chief Executive Alberto Nagel.
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But that accolade has proved a mixed blessing in the past.
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The link with Reagan would prove a mixed blessing for Bush.
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Mr Durant's arrival is also a mixed blessing for the Warriors.
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For the American economy, lower prices will be a mixed blessing.
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For the Assad regime, those ISIS remnants are a mixed blessing.
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For Aipac, the ascension of Mr. Trump is a mixed blessing.
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KURTZ: Joe, as an operative who became kind of famous when you were writing the Howard Dean campaign, you&aposre noted (ph) around the world, is it a mixed blessing -- TRIPPI: It is a mixed blessing.
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Mr Meade will find Mr Peña's endorsement to be a mixed blessing.
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Moving this conversation online has been a mixed blessing for feminist conversation.
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But the artist himself, it's a mixed blessing to have those standards.
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Members of the other families said the babies are a mixed blessing.
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For the Justice Department, cracking the iPhone would be a mixed blessing.
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If ever there was a mixed blessing, Access-a-Ride is it.
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Being in a prosperous area is a mixed blessing, its masters find.
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For Senegalese, the arrival of Chinese wholesalers has been a mixed blessing.
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Changes in the climate, bringing warmer weather, has been a mixed blessing.
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"The tech boom in San Francisco has been a mixed blessing," Newmark said.
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The platform has been a mixed blessing for some genres such as metal.
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It has been a mixed blessing, says Andreea Creanga of Johns Hopkins University.
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That&aposs a mixed blessing for firefighters, meteorologist Mike Charnick told the Herald.
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Cornerstones are viewed as a mixed blessing in other markets including Hong Kong.
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The challenge of keeping the city's balance exposes the mixed blessing of prosperity.
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Yet the never-ending supply of bright young men was a mixed blessing.
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Not getting Amazon could be a mixed blessing for the less urban locations.
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The AI that does jobs better than workers may be a more mixed blessing.
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Considered purely as a means of flood control, the dam is a mixed blessing.
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Despite the "mixed blessing" of the new tiny home trend, Weissmann isn't necessarily worried.
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The State of the Union response is notoriously a mixed blessing for the speaker.
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For Canada, and especially Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the pipeline represents a mixed blessing.
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Everything about the setting felt apt for discussing the mixed blessing of sudden fame.
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For South Korea, the economic clout of China has proven to be a mixed blessing.
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For their part, most Texas towns tend to see the boom as a mixed blessing.
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He is also played by David Oyelowo, which turns out to be a mixed blessing.
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Mr. Trump's presence has been described as a mixed blessing by many of the participants.
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That could be a mixed blessing for a candidate who presents himself as anti-elitist.
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The mania for all things Viking has been a mixed blessing for the two longships.
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The upshot: The new US president will, at best, likely be a mixed blessing for Moscow.
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Improved awareness of transgender-specific care among medical providers is a mixed blessing for intersex people.
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Progressive reformers of the early 6900th century must have considered the Great Depression a mixed blessing.
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Caliban's poetry comes, we're told, from Prospero, who taught him language — but that's a mixed blessing.
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It's always a mixed blessing to hear that Will likes a concept but wants a revision.
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"It was a blessing, not a mixed blessing, to be able to work with him," he said.
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The mortgage boom is thus a mixed blessing: rates are typically fixed for ten years or more.
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But as all grown-ups know, hope is also a cruelly mixed blessing; best to be wary.
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It has been a mixed blessing: National and state news has improved, but local coverage has suffered.
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For the seals that make these seas their home, that is proving to be a mixed blessing.
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The result is that he loses the Philip Marlowe cool of Gaiman's Shadow, which is a mixed blessing.
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A sharp uptick in the yields of Deutsche's equity-like debt instruments implies this is a mixed blessing.
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And yet "Angels," though hardly a mixed blessing, has proved a difficult, if not impossible, act to follow.
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An abundance of coal, oil and natural gas has been, at best, a mixed blessing for rural Americans.
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But a substantial move of the center right toward the Democrats would be a mixed blessing for them.
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This is the mixed blessing of workplace friendships, according to a 2015 study in the journal Personnel Psychology.
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It had dawned on Britain that having one of the world's main currencies was at best a mixed blessing.
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It connects you with anyone at all times; we Facebook denizens know what a mixed blessing that can be.
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How did a medium created for sharing data and information turn into such a mixed blessing of questionable information?
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Improved awareness of transgender-specific care among medical providers, however, is a mixed blessing for intersex people, Saifa says.
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Technology, a mixed blessing to be sure, is here a towering straw man, responsible for much of our unhappiness.
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The trackpad is the new force touch version, meaning no actual movement when you click, which is a mixed blessing.
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The Trump tax cuts offered a mixed blessing, reducing rates but also curbing valuable deductions for state and local taxes.
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Is it a mixed blessing when the operative is a bigger media figure than the candidates he&aposs trying to recruit?
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Sadly, the addition of the Nederlandse Kooikerhondje and the Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen to the AKC roster is a mixed blessing.
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That turned out to be a mixed blessing for firefighters because the lingering smoke limited the use of water-dropping aircraft.
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This is in some ways a mixed blessing—some expensive drugs with little if any benefit are nevertheless getting to market.
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As always, density is a mixed blessing, with clogged streets and sidewalks and scuffed, poopy park grass the less desirable outcomes.
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By which I'm pretty sure he was suggesting that celebrity, at least for him, had been at best a mixed blessing.
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The rise of online shopping is a mixed blessing for retailers, since higher shipping costs will probably weigh on their profit margins.
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The cooperation is a mixed blessing, according to the Franco-Japanese gallerist Jean-Kenta Gauthier, who represents both European and Japanese artists.
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Excited as they were to find the bee, Dr. Robson and his team worry that the sighting may be a mixed blessing.
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But, as chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer wryly observes, there is a point at which success is a bit of a mixed blessing.
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Howe is most fascinating when she is grappling with the mixed blessing of leading, not when she is sat typing lines of code.
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One consequence is that some bodies of global governance, as they've evolved so far, are at best a mixed blessing for many Americans.
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That's good news for automakers and a mixed blessing for consumers Trump officials acknowledge the House health care bill is in serious jeopardy.
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"The Trump agenda is sort of a mixed blessing for the stock market," said David Kelly, chief global strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management.
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The large number of options is a mixed blessing, offering voters a veritable smorgasbord of choices, but creating countless risks in the process.
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Thomas B. Edsall The surge in Democratic enthusiasm and activism driven by animosity to President Trump is proving to be a mixed blessing.
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Finally, being "friends" with co-workers can be a mixed blessing, so make sure you're careful to separate professional responsibility from personal obligation.
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The World Bank's report that the global economy is now operating at close to full capacity would seem to be a mixed blessing.
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"Achieving fame of sorts for chronicling and criticizing an act of epic national self-harm is a mixed blessing to say the least."
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This is a mixed blessing for Trump's opponents: a presidency with a weak policy legacy, but at the cost of government in constant turmoil.
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Rain on Sunday was a mixed blessing, Terrazas said, as it brought much-needed moisture, but also strong winds that blew the fire around.
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I already feel that my regular earphones are a mixed blessing, with the option to sink into music coming at the expense of awareness.
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For Shadi Jad, a young father who has been in a basement since the beginning of the week, his shelter is a mixed blessing.
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As a result, in some cases, a prosecutor's record is no longer a political asset but a liability, or at least a mixed blessing.
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"Pool duty is kind of the ultimate mixed blessing," said Mark Landler, who has been a White House correspondent for The Times since 2011.
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In an interview, Governor Brown said the popularity of the state with newcomers, many of whom earn high wages, has been a mixed blessing.
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Even Obama's flagship foreign policy "success" -- agreeing a compromise with Iran over its suspect nuclear program -- looks like a mixed blessing to many in Europe.
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Rain on Sunday was a mixed blessing, Terraza said, as it brought much needed moisture, but also strong winds that have blown the fire around.
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Even in those days, a former administration official said, Mr. Trump's aides regarded the ties between Mr. Kushner and Prince Mohammed as a mixed blessing.
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The experience of living the highs and lows of a professional golfer vicariously through her husband, whom she married in 2010, was a mixed blessing.
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Faster economic growth in the United States would be a mixed blessing for Germany and other European countries if it comes with restrictions on trade.
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Today they are considered a mixed blessing, detrimental to galleries who have nevertheless come to depend on them — while fairs, in turn, depend on galleries.
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CAPTAIN MOHAN RAM Indian Navy (retired)Bangalore Powerful language-processing technologies will be a mixed blessing for the endangered languages mentioned in Technology Quarterly (January 7th).
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After a half-century of publishing treatment studies and maintaining a clinical practice, Dr. Conners came to see the ascendance of A.D.H.D. as a mixed blessing.
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But there's a mixed blessing: Unless your town is extraordinarily full of tech workers already, many of those jobs will go to people moving in from elsewhere.
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Arguments for a just war of good versus evil, argues art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen, was a "mixed blessing" in its effects on US conduct in later wars.
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And it deprioritized news articles in favor of posts from friends and family — a mixed blessing, to be sure, but perhaps useful in the narrow case of discouraging hoaxes.
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"It looks like a mixed blessing," says Subbarao Kambhampati, an AI professor at Arizona State University and a past president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
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Fine was enjoying peak critical acclaim at the time of the Ninth Street Show and her experience before and after it encapsulates what a mixed blessing the era was.
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It's not clear what precisely we've done to deserve this iteration of Venom and the hilariously goofy movie in which he stars, but it's a mixed blessing worth embracing.
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So, without the spending of the gains from low oil prices, $30 per barrel crude oil doesn't seem to even be a mixed blessing for the net oil importing countries.
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America's preeminence in the world is a mixed blessing that leads to disasters like Vietnam and Iraq as much as it does triumphs like the end of the Soviet Union.
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Oil's low prices have proved to be a mixed blessing: good for consumers who drive and heat their homes, and bad for energy companies, a number of whom have gone bust.
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When Yelp added a way for its trans and gender non-conforming users to find safe restrooms, it felt like a mixed blessing for a community that's used to being ignored.
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The thaw in U.S.-Chinese relations helped pave the way for globalization, which has been a mixed blessing for the United States but has created the conditions for China's spectacular ascendance.
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Says Democrats have no need to "hold government funding hostage" this week To DREAMers themselves — several of whom contacted Vox to talk about their experiences — it's something of a mixed blessing.
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It's a mixed blessing because the research offers hope and yet at the same time shows how little progress there has been in practical terms, at least towards finding a cure.
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Herdsman Li Jianjun, who lives just a few hundred meters away from a giant open cut coal mine, said the huge coal reserves have been a mixed blessing for Inner Mongolia.
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For Constanza Pimentel, who along with her mother and brother runs a small winery on the outskirts of Mendoza, the country's winemaking capital, his government has so far been a mixed blessing.
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The eventual liberation of their homeland at the end of World War II was a mixed blessing: No longer subjects of the Japanese emperor, Koreans lost the right to reside in Japan.
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Understandably for a glaciologist, he also has a soft spot for shots of glacial cover, though it can be a mixed blessing to watch them diminish over Landsat's 45-year-long visual record.
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The rapidly-growing lack of ground is a mixed blessing for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who spent much of the last year arguing that Canada's aging infrastructure is in desperate need of replacement.
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But the opening of additional spigots of oil may be a mixed blessing because the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia agreed this month to reduce output to prop up prices.
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Some members of Trump's inner circle feared that what was an undeniable asset during the campaign — the power of authentic, direct communication — might become a mixed blessing as the leader of the free world.
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In the eyes of the industrial metals supply chain, the mass inflow of fund money is always going to be a mixed blessing, bringing with it the potential for increased volatility and "irrational exuberance".
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The fall in the oil price could prove to be something of a mixed blessing for the central bank as it struggles to get consumer-price inflation back to its goal of almost 2%.
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And then, early in the offseason, came a mixed blessing: Thompson was finally being traded away from one of the most dysfunctional organizations in the NBA, and he was going to his hometown team.
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Working without a novel was a mixed blessing, said the producer David Heyman, who optioned Ms. Rowling's first Harry Potter book and helped shepherd the franchise to $7.8 billion at the worldwide box office.
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The mixed blessing of low interest rates To keep money circulating after the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates to near zero in late 2008 and didn't start raising them until 2015.
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Valls' endorsement is a mixed blessing for Macron, who has sought to avoid being cast as the candidate of the unpopular outgoing Socialist administration, instead pitching himself as willing to bridge the traditional left-right political divide.
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Thomas Schumacher, the president of Disney Theatrical Productions and a veteran of adapting animated films for the stage, bluntly acknowledged that the fame of the song and movie's young and fervent fan base is a mixed blessing.
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The euro has gained 13 percent against the dollar this year, a mixed blessing for the ECB as it reflects a robust economy but caps inflation by making exports less competitive and reducing the cost of imports.
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It was a mixed blessing, as her dock master — who had a vested interest in keeping our crew of sunburned vagrants off their private beach — motored over and offered us chilled bottles of water and a tow.
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Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered (Yale, 550 USD, 400 GBP) The 500th birthday of that furiously energetic man Leonardo da Vinci has been a mixed blessing in terms of the presentation of his art in London and Paris.
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The euro has gained 13 percent against the dollar EUR= this year, a mixed blessing for the ECB as it reflects a robust economy but caps inflation by making exports less competitive and reducing the cost of imports.
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But in a mixed blessing to society (and a curse to comedy), paranoid anti-marijuana PSAs may be on their way out in favor of a new, more sober breed of ads made for the era of legalization.
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Herons swoop across your head, their elegance in mid-flight making you pause mid-stroke; dragonflies dance from lily pad to lily pad, flashes of blue in the gloom; even, on occasion, the mixed blessing of a nibbling fish.
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On a rainy New York morning, sipping hot water with lemon at the St. Regis, the London-based Law chatted about stepping into Dumbledore's slippers, Depp's future with "Fantastic Beasts" and the mixed blessing of his own good looks.
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It also means that your tweets about many popular subjects may now travel further than ever before, which can be a mixed blessing, as anyone who has ever seen a tweet go viral and faced harassment as a result can testify.
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It's a small world after all, a frightening thought if the virus becomes a global pandemic, but a mixed blessing for the scores of Wuhan natives living in Pittsburgh, which has been a "sister city" of Wuhan for nearly 40 years.
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It might be a mixed blessing that Dorsey was not invited, so he does not have to look weak by attending and then saying nothing — like all the other tech CEOs — about the range of attacks Trump has made on the sector.
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While the painful flashbacks and unwanted memories are most certainly a problem, HSAM also offers some benefits, as David Robson reported in his 2016 BBC Future article:The people with HSAM I've interviewed would certainly agree that it can be a mixed blessing.
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The auto industry got something of a mixed blessing when, on Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency said it was not going to roll back the aggressive Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards phasing in between the 2017 and 2025 model-years.
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BR: It's a mixed blessing that could create a pretty interesting environment for PE. With rates going up, the valuations we've seen that have been on the rise for the last couple of year could settle down, which would be good for us.
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But the government angle brings in an unsavory line of thinking — what if the police want to get unblurred dash cam footage of a crime that just happened, or one of many such situations where tech's role has historically been a mixed blessing?
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LONDON (Reuters) - Revenues at the world's 22018 biggest investment banks fell to their lowest levels since 2008 last year, a survey showed on Friday, while a return to more volatile global markets in 2018 could be a mixed blessing for their business.
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It was a mixed blessing that Grisha's nostalgia—rather, his extreme alternation, or juxtaposition, of warm sentiment and violent incident—was most appreciated in America, which perhaps also appreciated how much he relished denigrating America, calling it stupid, crass, incurious, and puritanical.
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The cable, which was declassified and published last December by the National Security Archive at the George Washington University, offers a timely reminder that for American governments, it is always a mixed blessing when North Korea's reclusive, murderous regime says that it wants to talk.
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Study co-author Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist based at the University of Edinburgh, pointed out that development in Ganzhou is a mixed blessing to fossil hunters: while these blasts do sometimes blemish specimens, active construction work there has also helped paleontologists find extinct animals.
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Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, a divisive figure whose backing may be a mixed blessing for Fillon, on Tuesday urged voters to back the man who served under him as prime minister from 2007 to 2012, and who beat him to the party nomination in November.
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While Thatcher visited victims in hospital that day – a mixed blessing as far as many Liverpudlians were concerned – May was criticised for her slow response to the Grenfell fire, though it is the air of remoteness which has drawn parallels between the two pictures.
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To be sure, for all of the President's campaigning for Strange (a mixed-blessing, as it turned out) and for all the hand-wringing and money spent in Alabama's Senate special election, the division and undercutting actually rather closely resemble the state of today's Republican Party.
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Liberal leaders, acknowledging the mixed blessing of having two well-funded, well-organized Democrats dividing endorsements and poised to compete deep into the primary calendar, are now beginning discussions about how best to avert a collision that could tip the nomination to a more centrist candidate.
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As we will return to in the next chapter, for artists and others in the music industries, the ability of fans to interpret, create, and distribute media among themselves is a mixed blessing, depending on what they are doing and on each artist's individual willingness to cede control.
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Idina Menzel's powerhouse voice is a mixed blessing: Composers love writing big, belty power ballads for her to murder at top volume, but they tax her voice so much that the live performances she does for awards shows don't always showcase what she can do when she's at her best.
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No wonder nine years passed between his best novels, "The Great Gatsby" (21959) and "Tender Is the Night" (21921); indeed Fitzgerald's facility for the short form would prove a mixed blessing, to put it mildly, somewhat akin to Muhammad Ali learning, late in his career, that he could take a punch.
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This is a bit of a mixed blessing; the father-son relationship McCall has with Miles in The Equalizer 2 lends itself to the personal touch that made the first Equalizer great, but it's debatable whether there are enough set pieces left that another film wouldn't push the franchise into Punisher territory.
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It's a bit of a mixed blessing in terms of a vehicle interface: On the one hand, it's terrific to have an unobstructed view of the road – it's as pure as driving experience as rolling down the track in the soapbox derby car of your youth, and it really leaves you feeling connected to the road itself.
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