Google Advanced News Search - search

I would like to Google News Search that searches for several terms and eliminates the duplicates.
Google provides several Booleans, but none quite do what I'm after.
Take :: Fiscal cliff, US debt, UK bank exposure, IMF
I want to see results for all of these in the news feed for the past 24 hours, but each searched as if it had been done individually.
Using the "Fiscal cliff" OR "US debt" etc... would do this, but would search for the exact phrase.
Using Fiscal cliff OR US debt etc... also searches for Fiscal debt and US cliff.
I want each of these to work like they would if I searched for them individually giving me all results for each term in the last 24 hours.
Possible?

Parentheses seem to do the trick. I don't see the exact result count in Google News, but I see it in the plain old Google :
"Fiscal cliff" OR "US debt"
About 82,200,000 results
(Fiscal cliff) OR (US debt)
About 358,000,000 results

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