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Much of that money goes on star players, as the team strives - with mixed results so far this season - to live up to its exalted reputation.

However, in reviewing Mexico's foreign trade situation this year, it might be appropriate to say that it is between joy and sorrow.

The record of programmes designed to put the long-term unemployed back to work is also somewhat mixed.

"We're starting to get a mixed picture, which suggests to me the housing market might be reaching for a bottom, " Gendreau says.

But for those whose performance is judged against that of the stockmarket, the commodity fetish is a mixed blessing.

Memories of my son's birth will always be bittersweet for me, but it was at this time that I learned an important truth about living.

Mixed reports Thursday from retailers on June sales results have helped boost some individual stocks, but did not widely affect the market.

By contrast, liberalization has been a mixed blessing for Indian cities, producing both enormous progress and enormous problems.

They are right to say that his overtures have had mixed results.