1.   Big Slow Payers Dealing with big firms who are also big customers is often a mixed blessing for small businesses.

2.   But the passenger pigeon, as we now know this bird, was a mixed blessing for the Pilgrims.

3.   Economic globalisation -- entailing deregulated trade and investment -- is a mixed blessing for health.

4.   Even that has been a mixed blessing.

5.   Having children so early in their marriage was a mixed blessing.

6.   Having your parents living nearby is a mixed blessing.

7.   My celebrity was a mixed blessing.

8.   Pedagogically the need to be much clearer about what is being taught and why is a mixed blessing.