Negotiation experts are masters at influencing people.

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Yet its authors claim smoking still features in too many films and could be influencing young people to take it up.

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Gasoline prices play an "outsized role in influencing the way people think about the economy and their own financial well-being and how they vote, " says economist Mark Zandi.

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Why is it only since 2006 that people have blamed speculators for artificially influencing price?

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"So we wanted to see if influencing this area of the brain could help people with the condition, " he said.

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Thus the law bars all the guesses and intuitions of people closest to the company from influencing the price of the shares.

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