It is another for the president's own spokesman to question his master's veracity.

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Anyone can answer a question, but only a master communicator dominates conversation by asking a lot of deep, provoking questions and letting the other people shine.

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The question about Mr Davis is whether he has some underlying master plan - or is simply weighing in where the fancy takes him.

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The question one must ask, even as an ardent capitalist, is whether capitalism is master or slave to man.

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The question we now wait to have answered is just how much of that experience Ive is a master at visualizing and delivering.

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The question is a sad one that presupposes that an honest business must roll up its sleeves and master the kind of dark arts we associate with corruption-riddled Russia or China.

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