"He'd call and drop by the show to see how things worked, " recalls Moffitt.
Nobody was even there to help me figure out how things worked in the elite society I had suddenly, if largely technically, gained access to.
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Mr. MICHAEL FLORES (California Fish and Game Department): We still don't know definitively how these things worked.
That's not quite how things have worked out.
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He's going to give you a little bit of the background to how these things have worked in the past.
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So how would you guys evaluate the way things worked this year and what, heading into next year's budget, if anything, is the White House going to call on Congress to do differently?
Those who argue that tougher gun control legislation and outright bans will make things safer might consider how well they have worked in other countries.
Until then, they were fairly boring things, with most people understanding how they worked only because their neighborhood streetlights went on when they sensed darkness, smoke detectors sounded alarms and fire trucks beeped because motion sensors understood when they were backing up.
He worked out, among other things, how to separate plutonium from uranium in a reactor after it had been synthesised.
They drew out the part of me that had to know what things looked like from the inside out, how they worked, how they might work better.
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The two ultimately worked things out when Ms. Reece spoke up about how she was feeling.
We smelled a scam in there somewhere, or possibly scamola, and since our whiny emails to the company asking them to explain how exactly this worked went unanswered, we decided to just call them up to try and sort things out.
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Recently I worked with a very successful company that brought me in to shake things up and show them how to stoke the new product pipeline.
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