The power devolved to councils and the presence of councillors willing to talk out means much more uncomfortable information tends to leak out of the system.
So for all the talk out there about deficit reduction, making sure our books are balanced, this is the guy who did it -- three times.
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Then they had the couples talk it out together, filming them while they did.
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They try to talk themselves out of problems, real or imagined, invariably with the opposite result.
One person even tried to talk Martinez out of his plans, according to the Justice Department.
And did anyone try to talk them out of what they were going to say?
If the dealing gets him into a bind, Gingrich thinks he can talk himself out of it.
For those trying to talk Iran out of potentially weapons-usable work, this seems to get them nowhere.
In my view, it's always more productive and mutually beneficial to talk things out and not fight things out.
Do you talk yourself out of pursuing new possibilities by focusing on all the things that could go wrong?
Talk it out: You're not always going to be able to control what your kid sees at a friend's house.
While the negotiations with North Korea drag on, the effort to talk Iran out of its nuclear ambitions is apparently near a dead end.
In fact, taking a negative tack is a surefire way to talk yourself out of friends, an employer and even a career.
We haven't even gotten to the protracted personnel dramas the free-agent sagas and multiplayer deals and the malcontents trying to talk themselves out of town.
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"If they reflect on their behavior, and they read about the experience of others, many kids will talk themselves out of it, " he said.
Though peers and his four sons tried to talk him out of it, Lin opened spacious eateries in both downtown Jeddah and in Riyadh.
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd had to talk himself out of trouble after airport officials flagged up a suspicious liquid in his cabin baggage - a jar of Vegemite.
Schmidt realized this company loves to talk it out, jettisoning hierarchy, business silos and layers of management for a flatter, "networked" structure where the guy with the best data wins.
It shows our hero Danny, a dorky student, being "friended" on Facebook by the lovely Lilly, who proceeds to talk him out of his pants on camera before abruptly disappearing.
North Carolina coach Roy Williams said in his 2009 memoir "Hard Work" that he tried to talk himself out of crying years earlier when he was the University of Kansas coach.
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And here was Doyne, who had just traveled halfway around the world, with only the basics of her talk sketched out, about to follow Jon Bon Jovi on the stage.
Mr Cairns played a prominent role in the Glasgow East by-election which Labour lost to the SNP and was close to Scottish Secretary Des Browne, who, the BBC understands, had tried to talk him out of resigning.
Force a vote on each nominee, and then dare his foes, some of whom face tough elections in conservative states next year, to talk them out as Thurmond tried (and failed) to do in 1957.
"For all the talk coming out of Cisco about adding Old World technology to their Internet products, it's really up to companies like Lucent and Nortel, who actually have experience in the old telecom world, to make it happen, " says Hilary Mine of Probe Research.
And if he had been in power in other words, if he said let's let the inspectors work or let's, you know, hope to talk him out, maybe that the 18th resolution would work, he would have been stronger and tougher, and the world would have been a lot worse off.
Ms. BIONDOLILLO: The problem is you used to be able to go out and talk to neighbors to find out if they knew if somebody moved, if they left an area.
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