The policy has been working well for retailers, as it hypes consumer emotions, making them feel smart and talk to other consumers about it.
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Though actually building a line to China would be difficult, "Pakistan is smart to talk about China, " says Thomas Pickering, former U.S. Ambassador to India and Russia.
At a time when our country desperately needs leadership in the area of job creation and budget discipline, our elected officials would be smart to talk to family business owners.
Its coffee bars burble over with smart kids who talk and breathe the web.
The few smart economists I talk to fear Southeast Asia's misery spreads to us, but I am a disbeliever.
Most of the smart people I talk to agree that software patents today are providing too much protection, and are hampering progress.
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Accenture's researchers are also dreaming up ways for the elderly to share digital scrapbooks online with their grandchildren, and smart systems that talk you through simple home-improvement tasks, such as installing a new light fixture.
As Samsung brings its devices into an age of the Internet of Things, where more gadgets, from your phone to your Smart TV, talk to one another, it makes sense for its disperate divisions to collaborate with one another more.
In its simplest form, it lets your "smart" electric meter talk back to the utility and record your usage by hour, so you can adjust your habits to take advantage of lower, off-peak rates.
What I respect so much about him is, he doesn't feel the need to beat his chest and talk about how smart he is.
When you talk about intelligence, smart people are usually a cut above others because their memories are superb.
So before I fast forward and talk about driving the forthcoming Smart Fortwo Electric Drive car through the cobble-stoned streets of Brooklyn, let me remind readers that the Smart car concept was quite literally ahead of its time.
"Probably this year more than anything, you had more people talk about its significance, " Smart said.
But a group of smart people was able to sit down, talk candidly, recognize where they disagree.
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Wireless networks are a key building block for smart homes, since they enable devices to talk to each other, and to the internet, without the need to run cables all over the place.
So when we talk about, for example, the smart grid, this is not a complicated concept.
And there is talk of hybrid systems, which allow smart cards and network-based payments to work together.
Each node contained a small processor, a sensor and a low-powered radio with just enough power to talk to adjacent nodes and the network was just smart enough to reconfigure itself to reroute data whenever one node got damaged.
In a "smart" grid, the meters allow the various information points to "talk" to each other, providing more transparent information to everyone connected to the grid.
"I guess you can't really talk bad about the way these guys competed, " Kings coach Keith Smart said.
The smart home will remain out of reach as long as devices from different manufacturers cannot talk to each other.
Kirkpatrick asks Dorsey to spend a few minutes to talk about Square, which of course offers a dongle you can plug into a smart phone so you can read credit cards easily.
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He hired a smart media guy in Mike Murphy, who was last seen riding shotgun on John McCain's Straight Talk Express.
As he worked alongside his brother, Mark became known as the easier of the two talk to, while Andrew was more driven, more introverted and some say, more book-smart.
The smart ones look ahead by banking as much money as they can by branding themselves as actresses or designers or talk show hosts--anything really--for those days when the modeling jobs dry up.
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