That Used to Be Us from the perspective of the branding professional I am.
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And we just learned that China now has the fastest supercomputer on Earth -- that used to be us.
That Used to Be Us, written with Michael Mandelbaum, Director of the Foreign Policy program at Johns Hopkins University, the authors assert that the United States no longer leads the world in its ability to innovate and to efficiently create new things and ideas.
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The only real string attached to US aid is the stipulation that no US financial assistance can be used to finance Hamas.
And I believe that hip-hop can be used as a tool to connect us, and the emotional connection that we established in just a day or just two days was just phenomenal.
It used to be that the media would tell us - newspapers, radios, TVs, they would tell us the facts and then Americans with a head on their shoulders would make good decisions about what they thought was best for them.
It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other.
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The good news is that social media has arrived to give us a stealth mode that can be used to deflect calls to your community of users or, when appropriate, enable you to intercept service issues and fix them quickly.
"He continues to be an important player for us and one that the other squad members are used to, " said Del Bosque.
Above all, ministers want assurances that no German taxpayer money will be used to bail out Opel's US parent.
By mentioning the dramatic death of Gaddafi and the operation to kill Bin Laden, he suggested that US power would be used in a different way in the future.
Hydraulic fracturing is widely used across the US to exploit reserves of oil and gas that were once believed to be inaccessible.
"It's not our long-term solution because of the competition with feed, and fuel competition, but it is prompting us to put into place a refueling infrastructure that could be used with cellulosic ethanol, " made from other types of plant material such as timber waste or switch grass.
And scientists hope that in the future differences in what microbes live in us and on us will be used to diagnose and prevent disease.
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If you look back in history, if you go back in the early 1900s, the US dollar used to be backed by gold, partially, and before that, it has been used as money as well.
Our correspondent says Mr Obama will have used the visit to reassure Iraq's leaders that, when US troops are eventually withdrawn, it will be done responsibly and without plunging the country into chaos.
His British lawyers have begun an action alleging that GCHQ, the government's secret communications centre, may be helping to provide the US with information used to identify targets.
My Uncle was mildly embarrassed by the entire episode, but should not be, because the techniques used to propagate these scams have become so advanced that the educated and computer savvy among us are not immune.
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