Such protection is critical to the free flow of information in a democracy.

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By redirecting the flow of a conversation, you elicit critical information and show that you care about what the other person is thinking.

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Accounting ignores these critical details while finance incorporates them by using cash flow metrics rather than earnings metrics and a cost of capital measure that reflects current interest rates plus a component for a company's overall riskiness.

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The free flow of such knowledge and data could be critical in reducing the tens of thousands of medically related accidental deaths each year.

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Offshore oil production could help refill the pipeline just when the flow from the North Slope is projected to reach critical lows.

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Despite a number of critical internal and external reports, public money, including EU funding, continued to flow.

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Though a program displays panels showing all the critical processes of a real rig (fire and gas detectors, valve status, oil flow from the sea bed and so on), and then responds to the actions of the trainee by altering these displays appropriately, a human operator can intervene at any time if things seem to be going too smoothly.

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Increasingly, in light of the flow and ebb of the PE cycle in recent years, LPs think it is critical that GPs stick to what they know best.

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