Try to imagine what the economy, and the American family, would look like then.
Try to imagine the fresh hells experienced by the pudgy kid every day he goes to school.
Try to imagine how long it would take Apple to sort out manufacture of the iPhone at home.
Try to imagine yourself in that situation, and what would you do with the feelings of helplessness, anger and grief?
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Try to imagine a world in which investors could buy only assets that had gone up with assurances of continued profits.
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As a writer you try to imagine as deeply as you can, and richly, with as many details as you can.
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Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.
Then try to imagine the alternative -- that in a collapsing global economy and society we will stand by and simply watch the slide.
Try to imagine Lyndon Johnson or Bill Clinton making that pitch.
An important aspect of the project is to try to imagine what kind of location-based services (and other wireless services) will be appropriate in a high-tech city 20 years from now.
When I try to imagine the future, I am optimistic because I see women demanding information and opportunities in the face of social norms that say they're not permitted to do so.
These threats are revolting for many reasons, and I can only try to imagine the reactions of the tens of thousands of people who work for tech companies in New York state.
Time and again I try to imagine that a celestial bonesetter is pinching me through a miraculous grip on my cervical vertebrae, a grip that will put life right once and for all.
Then he would try to imagine the person it had belonged to, and he would feel at peace only when he had formed in his imagination a clear picture of the unknown passenger who had hurtled by.
Try to imagine anything more heroically absurd!
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When you do feel discouraged, try to imagine all the patients I have treated, or advised on, who had their lives turned around for the better when the right treatment for that particular patient was finally found and instituted.
"By that I mean try to imagine creating a cavity inside your mouth without any air bubbles and by letting in no air through your lips or throat -- it's basically impossible at sea level because the air pressure outside your mouth pushes the air pocket closed, " he said.
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Try to imagine the scene at the front of the lines, as already overworked TSA agents are forced to take tape measures or rulers and gauge the length and width of knives, as travelers insist their blades are shorter than 2.36 inches or that they aren't more than a half-inch wide.
So what I try to get people to imagine is that that one new voter that you register in your precinct, that one neighbor that you help get to the polls on November the 6th, that could be the one that makes the difference in this election.
Visitors try to empathise with victims and imagine the motivations of the perpetrators, he says, and then visitors have a sense of relief that they can step back into the safety of their own lives.
If I try to speak the fluid conversation I imagine, it comes out halting and flat.
Seems hard to imagine they would try again.
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But, again, try to put yourself on the other side of the desk and imagine that you have 15 candidates to evaluate for one job.
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We're going to try something that maybe we just imagine now, but if we work at it, we'll achieve it.
"You can imagine how emotionally spent you are to try to rescue somebody, you're face-to-face with them, and then they're washed away, " Hood said of his distraught firefighters, who'd gotten so close to rescuing the woman only to lose her.
It is not hard to imagine that they will seize the present opportunity to try to achieve that long-deferred goal.
These self-contradictory concepts try to capture the fact that even business may be stranger than we can imagine, and that the old models are no longer adequate.
For instance, imagine you could try out a new photo sharing service without having to move all of your photos and social graph.
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The troops are tired because they were anticipating the order to go and even though you try to sleep, usually, it's very restless, as you can imagine.
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