How do we, writers and readers, decide the viewpoints that really make sense, that make a contribution and somehow move us on?
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What this means is that graphene is something of a gamble: to really make sense, people will have to dream up inventions for it.
From the pensioner's point of view, though, does it really make sense to buy an asset near what looks like the top of the market?
Can it really make sense for a hospital to invest in a program, like the Special Care Center, that aims at reducing hospitalizations, even if its employees are included?
Does it really make sense for Facebook to invest the time and resources in further fragmenting the phone space, when it still has to support the two big players anyway?
Does it really make sense for a city whose prosperity is built on trade and finance to elect a mayor who is instinctively suspicious, to put it mildly, of both?
When so many people -- especially the young -- are struggling to find a toe hold in the labor market, does it really make sense to make it harder for employers to hire them?
Pfizer has already made billions of dollars on Viagra--it doesn't really make sense to let the firm define its invention so broadly that patients who don't respond well to Viagra can't try other medicines.
Did it really make sense for the feds to decree (in a 1992 law supported by the first Bush Administration) that newly installed toilets use no more than 1.6 gallons of water per flush?
But as organizers of this ancient tournament ponder ways to revive waning fan interest and arrest declining ticket sales, it's time to ask this question: Does it really make sense to send one of these team packing?
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You know, maybe it really does make sense to insist on only hiring all the really bright people you can find?
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What's most interesting to us is that the carriers are appearing to conflate bandwidth-heavy services like Facebook and YouTube with devices that customers use to access those services -- does it really make any sense to charge Apple or Google a fee for making good phones that encourage more network use, on top of charging users for tiered data?
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It really would make more sense.
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And so it doesn't really make a lot of sense, we're concerned about it.
But really, does it make sense to overpay for a 31-year-old with a weight problem when the money could be invested better elsewhere?
We experience a myriad of highly inconvenient and uncomfortable reactions which would make complete sense if there really were a tiger there.
"Sometimes baseball doesn't make sense, and on a night we really needed some runs, we got them, " Girardi said.
Dido calls it "my bleakest song ever", written about "a really bad" experience that she couldn't "make sense of".
"Sometimes baseball doesn't make sense, and on a night we really needed some runs, we got them, " Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
She says that giving back helps us stop fixating on our troubles and instills in us a sense of empowerment and confidence that we really can make a difference.
And then there are moments that really make you think: Claude Chabrol explaining why being upset never makes sense, Ennio Morricone analyzing the importance of music, Anthony Hopkins lamenting about the finiteness of life.
Practice may not really make perfect, but research is showing that it definitely makes a lot of sense.
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But in some cases it really has to do with a failure to update and review what restrictions still make sense and what restrictions don't.
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"We do expect, obviously, in the coming months and years to make some of those really tough decisions where we would have to work really close with Congress to shut down data centers that frankly don't make sense, " said Vivek Kundra, the government's chief information officer.
Nobody, even though we thought it was strange, nobody ever really sat down and said, wait a minute, this doesn't make any sense until now.
And so the question then is: Does it make sense for us to start pricing in the fact that this thing is really bad for the environment?
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After the game is over, we may sit back and have philosophical discussions about whether the conventions of tennis make sense, or whether other conventions would be preferable, or whether we really enjoy trying to defeat our best friend at tennis, but for the duration of the game, these questions have to be set aside in order to play an excellent game of tennis.
And that, I think, is probably a bigger danger because at that point, when you're so afraid to make mistakes and you're so fearful, then it really drains from you any sense of purpose or passion as to why you wanted to serve in the first place, and you become much more concerned with just, you know, being in office than you are about making a difference.
But for my money, T bills make sense only in the rare cases where small month-to-month fluctuations are really unbearable.
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