If for no other reason, this might come about because so many things happen to have gone wrong at exactly the same time.

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And we talked about it later and it did come up that she was reticent about all the other things that could happen to her as a result of someone having that information.

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Parents would love to see those eye-watering fees come down, but that is not about to happen.

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But, to be honest, given some of the decisions that come out of the USPTO just about anything could happen.

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And when you look at what had to happen in Northern Ireland in order for peace to come about, is there has to be some recognition and understanding on each side of the other side.

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"People here are reluctant to come out because, naturally, they worry about what's going to happen, " Faisal Kapadia, a commodities trader in Karachi, told CNN on Monday.

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The idea is to imagine the future, specifically as relates to technology and how people use it, create plausible scenarios that might actually come about as technology develops, and then figure out how to make them happen.

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