Thus we trot out tried-and-true strategies of diversion and avoidance: blaming the victims for their ills, assaulting the suffering for their sins or blasting the messenger for telling the unkind truth.
Irving Mann has been in business long enough to be skeptical of out-of-the-blue offers that seem too good to be true.
He certainly has an obligation to figure out whether - as is true of, by some estimates, 80% of the mosques in America - the Ground Zero Mosque is going to fit the profile of a Wahhabi-associated facility.
Support for taking action to prevent that from happening has generally been bipartisan, and we hope that this report -- again, based on reporting out of closed conference meeting -- turns out not to be true.
With that kind of money you could entirely build out a national network of true high-speed rail.
Unfortunately for KKR Financial, mortgage-backed securities built out of well-performing loans, and the loans themselves, were treated as pariahs along with true subprime debt.
Fortunately, you won't have long to find out the true home of the quad-core Snapdragon S4, as Qualcomm has also revealed that LG plans to release its next superphone for commercial availability this September in South Korea, with other territories to follow.
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He believed in an all-out global struggle between a noble vanguard of true Muslims and the massed ranks of jahiliyya.
At its worst, inside-out thinking distracts companies from their true purpose of driving customer value.
You had an obligat- ion to really spell out the true extent of your position to your boss.
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He testified convincingly that he was uncomfortable giving out false information--especially because he knew the true state of affairs.
When none of this turned out to be true, however--the shooter was not really a political actor at all, but just a mentally ill lost soul with no connection to partisan politics--the scare began a slow retreat.
HMOs, and increasingly some policy-makers, have pointed out that the true cause of medical cost increases is consolidation among providers and the attendant reimbursement rate increases, which are passed on in the form of higher insurance premiums.
Some argue that the true cost of that costless Mexican bail-out is today's crisis in Asia because foreign lenders learned in 1995 that they would be rescued if their loans turned bad, and therefore lent more than they should to Asia.
He set out to educate them in the true nature of Islam, austerely rejecting pre-Islamic tradition.
Just the opposite was true of the Spanish-American War, which broke out five years later.
Initially, Ellis told the Golden State Warriors that he injured his ankle during a pick-up basketball game, but the team found out the true cause of his injury.
Here again in 2011-2012, the crisis proved good for gold at first, but the whole move has been unwound as global credit deflation sucked the air out of gold futures and options, and wipe-out losses in other assets forced even true believers to quit their positions.
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If true, that would rule out an in-flight explosion as the cause of the crash of Air France Flight 447, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim told reporters.
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Assuming this is true, market-based reforms by which the government simply gets out of the way altogether would be an undeniable good because it might lead us to spend less on that which we don't always need.
He was only one of 15, 000 ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania who left Romania that year, but Attila stood out--he pulled off his escape in true Hollywood fashion by clinging to the undercarriage of a moving train as it crossed the border.
But while it is true that attendance at elite American universities is farther out of reach for lower-income students, it is certainly not the case that a college education is farther out of reach.
True, they threw out a right-wing dictator and gave the country a decade of Marxist power.
The true scale-out public cloud providers are the ones creating the underpinnings for the future of computing.
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The attempt to launch a "True Germans" party (Die wahren Deutschen) fizzled out amid the usual charges of neo-Nazism.
And it is true that John Major blew his credibility overnight when Britain fell out of Europe's exchange-rate mechanism.
Other tried and true ways are to acknowledge that you have self-doubt when it happens and get out of your own way!
The best news for dreamers that've been holding out for a true Newton successor all this time is that the chips provide plenty of juice for a UMPC-type device should Apple choose to go down that path.
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If by regulation we mean the government should get in the way of true financial innovation, then soon enough the vibrant financial institutions of the past will be out-innovated by their unregulated brethren on the way to irrelevance.
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