Together with this surprising inattentiveness, executives have a remarkably faulty memory which means that conversations are rarely recalled in any detail.

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Abbas, however, was certainly nowhere nearly as directly affronted as the Hamas leaders in Gaza, whom the president unceremoniously slammed for their rocket attacks and for their inattentiveness to the needs of the Palestinian people entrusted into their care.

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