So we are now where we are in December, and we need Congress -- Republican leaders in Congress -- to be serious about what the parameters of a deal look like.
But what I'm most concerned about is having a serious discussion about what we need to do to keep the country growing and restore security for hardworking Americans.
They are asking serious questions about what is going to happen.
For years, voters questioned whether the Lib Dems were serious about governing, and wondered what they stood for.
They have now pulled out, but as Bowen finds there are serious questions to be asked about what they did while they were there.
And what about that serious new set we mentioned?
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If the breach is serious enough, you have to worry about what the FTC is going to do.
So just to pick up on one point of perhaps disagreement, I would say that the thing that we need to be focused on, and I hope we will spend some serious time talking about it tonight is, what are the dynamics at work in this world?
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It's about serious long-term thinking: analysing what's gone wrong with our criminal justice system, and developing serious plans to put it right.
What better time to get serious about saving for retirement or investing for the distant future than right after asset prices have been beaten down?
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Instead he's thinking about what he calls a more 'serious' profession like teaching.
Now the Security Council will have a role in deciding what should be done about any serious Iraqi violations reported by the weapons inspectors.
Some of these reactions were expected but others raise serious concerns about the direction Latin America is taking in what is called "the battle of ideas".
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This is a serious and well-considered book, which makes suggestions about what has gone wrong and how such mistakes can be avoided by future international missions.
What they said was that they were serious about negotiating.
Maybe there can be a serious conversation about how a school should measure athletic success, what values truly matter, what it will and won't do to win, what alumni really want when they say they want to be proud.
And so the question is, at what point can we have a serious conversation about Medicare and its long-term liability, or a serious question about -- a serious conversation about Social Security, or a serious conversation about budget and debt in which we're not simply trying to position ourselves politically.
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What is more, if Congress is serious about procurement reform in the Pentagon, about reducing the unacceptably long lead-times from program inception to deployment, and about minimizing the costs of defense systems, it will find no better model than the approach used to bring on line successive generations of submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
What did happen is scary and a serious warning about the dangers of the online world.
Doing anything to disrupt that could mean serious trouble for the company, but what Peipler is talking about still belongs in the partnership world.
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If he was serious about his proposal he would have thought long and hard about what the Department of Energy does, whether any of its functions had to be replicated elsewhere, what the implications would be for the oil and gas industry.
For too long, parents have been forced to worry about what they would do if their child developed a serious medical condition.
And probably even more serious than any of those things is that they're worried about what they're going to do for their second act.
What makes me think that Apple has a serious problem about computer malware is that I think that much more of it is to do with explanation two.
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You generally know something about how serious a company or government views a rule by seeing what accountability standard or penalty is imposed for failing to comply with that rule.
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And I clearly understood that the Department's reputation at that time back in 2002, no matter what we wrote, there would be a serious doubt about some of the Department findings.
As a result, the fracas in Utah creates a momentous opportunity: To provide the people of that State, and Americans more generally, with the first serious opportunity in a generation for a conversation about our deterrent - and what it takes to ensure we continue to have one that is safe, reliable and effective.
Why should anyone care what some online joke-monkey has to say about serious issues?
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And what is reflective -- and it was a very serious meeting about a serious policy issue.
NIH.gov, and to talk to their health care provider about what they can do to reduce their risk of developing this serious disease.
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