As I reflect on this, I see how the American story is in many ways my story -- a country still trying to negotiate its own identity, caught between the paradise of its founding ideals and the realities of its history, trying to figure it out, trying to "become" even today -- the word hope as fresh on our tongues as it ever was.
Not that you're going to implement it, but that you support it, but you're just trying to figure out how to make it work?
It is the kind of app that will have a lot of people looking at and trying to figure out how it works.
Unidentified Man: There are people all over this country tonight that are making their way to Crawford trying to figure out where in the heck it is.
As with everything that's social networking, I'm still trying to figure out what it all means.
"We're still trying to figure out why it hit the bridge, " he said.
She became fixated on a hair twisted in a painting's crack, trying to figure out how it got there.
Another question mark: The U.S., which hasn't joined the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gases, is still trying to figure out how it wants to control carbon emissions.
But this time the FDA put together a particularly tough crowd of more than 30 doctors, who are trying to figure out why it took so long to turn up dangerous heart side effects for Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Vioxx--and whether Pfizer's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) similar drugs, Celebrex and Bextra, should stay on the market.
When comparing the day-to-day focus on building technical stuff, and the day-to-day reality of trying to figure out current Market Truth, it is really useful to note the difference in complexity: Engineering is a relatively small challenge in most cases.
And it seems like so many other Republicans are simply trying to figure out how to live in it.
It's a lot different than settling on an iconic form that looks natural and then trying to figure out how to build it.
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And, look, I made that commitment and I probably should have put it on C-SPAN, although one of the tricky things is trying to figure out, well, if it is on C-SPAN, are people actually going to be saying what they think about trying to get the bill done or is everybody going to be posturing to say things that sound good for the camera.
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Now, as more and more material is seen and stored on the Internet, and everyone from marketers to intelligence agencies is trying to figure out the meaningful patterns within the mess, it should be the season for companies that manage unstructured data.
"Retailers are still trying to figure out what the heck it all means, but they know their customers are engrossed in digital commerce so they need to be there, " says Tom Furphy, a venture capitalist and former Amazon executive who played tour guide for a handful of executives from supermarkets and consumer-goods companies at a recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
"It would be a pretty big leap from trying to figure out how to partner around the world to we're going to do it ourselves, " Del Prete says.
It's trying to figure out where I put my wallet and keys the night before.
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Still, it is worth trying to figure out the provisions in your policy.
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They're "licking their finger and testing the wind, " as Timmerman put it -- trying to figure out how to please all constituencies.
It is like trying to figure out how the U.S. economy works using only satellite photos and interviews with random people in the street.
On the one hand employees are bringing their own laptops, mobiles and software (via cloud apps) and CIOs are wringing their hands trying to figure out how to deal with it.
IBM's Watson supercomputer can field an awkwardly worded question, figure out what you're trying to ask, retrieve the answer and spit it out fast enough to beat human champions on the TV quiz show "Jeopardy!"
Trying to figure out where you go wrong when it comes to reaching your goals?
Roth is trying to figure out how hydrogen sulfide does what it does.
And you're not doing it because you are trying to figure out what bits you are going to have to cut out.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) happened upon Tirupur as it began trying in earnest to figure out how to generate revenue from the world's second most populous nation.
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