We will have no choice but to curb our carbon emissions, and to do so by design rather than by default is the most pressing issue for humanity.

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And, of course, no one is better suited to reinvent this role than a woman who, by design or default, has learned to reinvent herself so often.

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Instead of staying the course, I took a lengthy retreat, by design, not default.

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But whether by default or design, the country is becoming increasingly divided along dangerous lines.

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The flip side to the preceding paragraph is growth for the sake of growth, growth by default and not by design, growth for the wrong reasons or at the wrong times, and growth in the wrong areas can create corporate ruin.

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The task of assessing American design's place in the world, and in everyday life, went more or less by default to the Cooper-Hewitt museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, located in what had been Andrew Carnegie's mansion on Fifth Avenue.

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