The Post reported that a malfunction in Mir's attitude-control system also occurred in March, causing it to list until an alternate back-up system was activated.

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Self control, proper attitude, courtsy for everyone at work, and extension of helping hand towards others, could all become positive ingredients for one to feel at home with the environment at work.

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We may not be able to control all the factors that contribute to gender bias in the workplace, but we certainly can control our own attitude and belief system.

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When attitude -- or position -- control is lost on a structure like the space station, it begins to tumble.

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He agreed that a culture of greed and irresponsible attitude to customers may have "got out of control" in the financial sector.

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While the world is freaking out, take that step backward and focus on what you can control your spending, your attitude and your life goals.

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But a clumsy apartheid-era law, the Aliens Control Act, has prevented this, as have a suspicious attitude towards foreigners and an impossibly bureaucratic immigration process.

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The key to resisting the hardship and discord that intrude upon every human life, is to cultivate a certain attitude toward adversity based on the critical distinction between those things we are able to control versus those which are beyond our capacity to manage.

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This bizarre, not to say dangerous, attitude has its roots in the theology of the Cold War during which the Left embraced arms control in general and, above all, the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

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