Being a great believer in competition, the program director had asked a dozen vendors to bid.

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"I am a great believer in multiple realities of Asia and in attempting to negotiate this cultural difference, " he says.

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Hays is a great believer in enjoying what you have.

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By background, she is a hard-edged realist, a believer in the uses of American power and the importance of great-power relations.

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He's a firm believer in free-market liberalism - and had great hopes for Silvio Berlusconi when he first appeared on the political scene.

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And then finally, the other thing I've always been a big believer in, and Forbes magazine has been a great supporter from the very beginning of my Random Walk book, and that is put your money in low-cost index funds.

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