Not only did he ask too many open-ended questions that allowed the candidates to wander off onto tangents that were not part of the agenda, he rarely reinforced the need for Romney or Obama to go back to answer the original questions.
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And when moderator Gwen Ifill asked about consumers who face debt or difficulties with their mortgages, she actually asked to change the subject and went back to another answer on energy exploration, which had been fully covered minutes before.
Look, this is a responsibility that everyone needs to take and to bear, dealing with our deficit and debt -- and going back to my answer to Ed's question about the fact that this President, in the midst of a cataclysmic economic decline, was also, in addition to the keys of the building, handed the largest deficit thus far in history.
To encourage the answer it wants--and to cut back the country's growing oil imports--Beijing has imposed taxes on high-gas-consumption autos, while adopting European auto emissions standards in 2004.
And if you find yourself afraid to engage with an answer, or you find yourself struggling to back up your conclusions and opinions with reason, or you find the mere suggestion that your position ought to be explainable offensive, I would strongly suggest you re-examine your position: if you cannot plainly, clearly explain why you hold the beliefs you do, they are, in all likelihood, standing on shaky ground.
And going back to the answer I gave to Ed, let's let the record be judged for its results.
But in this field, the best answer is probably to go back to nature or, at least, to snaffle her best ideas.
Take a minute to think about your answer to this question: Are excuses holding you back from achieving results?
And when you are performing the equivalent action on Siri, your device is passing that information to a remote server which is processing the request and then returning an answer, in pieces, back to your device.
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This means they have to leave your website, ask their network, wait for an answer, and then maybe come back to finish the buying process.
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To answer this, we must step back and look at the big picture.
Mr Owen was found dead at Trecco Bay in Porthcawl, south Wales, the day before he was due back in court to answer the charges.
The answer is that he continues to back the government's policy of refusing to borrow more to stimulate demand.
He refused to answer journalists' questions as he arrived back in the UK, and his only comment came when a photographer walked into a pillar, injuring his nose and mouth.
And many times when pressed to give more details, Clinton keeps referring back to the narrowly legalistic statement his lawyers prepared to answer questions about the sexual nature of his relationship with Lewinsky.
He explained he was thinking of the years he went to college, an answer that earned him entry back into China.
There was no answer when authorities tried to call the number back.
But in practice, its only answer is to try to tempt North Korea back to feckless multilateral disarmament talks that will go nowhere because China supports North Korean armament.
As if to answer that criticism, Tim Cook finally came back on stage to tell us that Apple was not about the individual products, more about how they all worked seamlessly together.
You can, though, chuckle inside when they try to show it off to you, only to explain that Siri is at lunch or in the bathroom at the moment and will get back to you later with the answer to your question.
And that answer, necessarily, involves moving back to the partnership model.
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You can go more and more deeply into your knowledge database and give a fuller and richer answer, or you can move back to your original key message points.
By all indications, arriving at an answer to the question is what is seemingly holding back the New York Yankees and Derek Jeter from coming to a speedy accord.
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As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
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S. 77 in Manhattan, who wouldn't take no for an answer before her class boarded the bus back to school.
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