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Male lions are a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to fathering.

Facebook apps have generally been a bit of a mixed bag for travel firms since the social network's API was opened to developers in mid-2007.

I've been testing the Thrive for about a week, and found it to be a mixed bag.

Of course, no journalist would muddy the waters of a message with such a mixed bag of metaphors.

What is now often referred to as China's private equity industry is a mixed bag.

He says the dispositions of plastics and insurance were 'home runs' and that the acquisitions were a mixed bag.

Tarlin has no children, which, she says, is a mixed bag when attempting to regulate her eating schedule.

This can be a mixed bag for the sector, as Lucy points out, but it is not going away.

I'm going in the summertime, so I'm hoping for the best, but anyone who has hiked the AT knows that it's always a mixed bag.

That means a stronger yuan would be a mixed bag for many tech producers and vendors who source from China.

Instead, we typically end up with a mixed bag of data, process, service, and policy interoperability.

Your parents were not just your parents. They, like all of us, are complex beings with a mixed bag of character strengths and flaws.

This mixed picture has led to a mixed bag of monetary policy responses in the region.

A tumor consists of a mixed bag of cells, not just one solid same- celled block of tissue.

For civil servants, however, E-Government offers a mixed bag changes in management and lead ship and retraining requirement.

Stocks close mixed on volatile oil prices and a mixed bag of earnings .

The UN, in a mixed bag of reforms in 2005, failed to adopt a definition of "terrorism" .

Looking ahead to next year, economists see a mixed bag for American consumers.

"I suppose he was slightly concerned about the reception he'd get, which was a mixed bag, but he went for Jamie, " said Gerrard.

The filming style used is also a mixed bag, with repetitions, quick cuts and flashbacks the norm.

As this singular observation indicates, the study, overall, is a mixed bag of the reassuring and the dismaying .

America's big banks published a mixed bag of third-quarter results.

It did, however, overlay a mixed bag of reforms with some good British spin.

Aries is the first zodiac sign and the year 2011 provides you a mixed bag of results with some very pleasing results.

To the historian, the volume in which Millikan's paper appeared shows that physics in America was still a mixed bag.

His later films were a mixed bag.

The buttons on the device are a mixed bag.

But the flip side is that some actions will lead to good results, and it's generally better to have a mixed bag than to have nothing at all.

1998 Was a mixed bag as far as safety was concerned.

The '80s were a mixed bag for Nike.

Fish Oil Studies Show A Mixed Bag Of Effects