Although the Walmart Foundation has donated, and will continue to donate, food directly to these organizations they are also striving to think outside of the box and find other ways to support food banks.

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Let's all think outside of the box.

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More than just shooting off a couple of emails and hoping for the best, your team for 2012 will rely on you to think outside of the box as well as inside at some of the common sense bits that get overlooked.

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There is no analytic data behind writing this piece, simply that these are five startups that have packed my life with a bit more punch and spice than before while simultaneously connecting us all together and inspiring other enterprising entrepreneurs to think outside of the box.

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It is time to think way outside of the box.

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There is still a lot of space for innovation in the world of food and agriculture, especially if you begin to think outside the box of American commercial agriculture.

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And at times like this, it's the job of the think-outside-the-box expert to explain why the conventional wisdom is wrong.

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To reinvent education or solve any of the problems facing our society today, we need to think innovatively, see the promise of education outside the box and recognize that failure is not an option.

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It seems that these animals think, literally, outside the box of the brain.

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The lack of domestic demand has forced Harley-Davidson to think outside the box or borders to be more accurate.

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To help think outside the box Ofer worked with Israeli-born Avery More to secure an initial round of venture capital and later added to the mix Alex Eleftheriadis, a Greek-born professor, along with other experts.

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Others believe that by trying to focus on the services which matter most to voters and by being prepared to think outside the box, it might be possible to maintain good services even if this could mean a difficult period of change for some staff.

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