We heard from Myrna Rodriguez Previte, a breast cancer survivor who struggled to get health insurance as a self-employed real estate broker.
The Minister for Sport Rhodri Glyn Thomas described the triumph as a "tremendous result for Wales" and said it would be a "real boost to our national self-confidence".
Federal researchers who launched an experimental cyberattack last year in Idaho caused a generator to self-destruct, prompting fears about the effect of a real attack on the nation's electrical supply.
Imprisoned in our delusional social media bubbles, our Facebook saturated world has become a self-referential stream of real-time updates about what we just ate for breakfast.
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Meantime, "Undefeated" charts the progress of the Tigers, who start out miserable, gradually gain confidence and victories, and find themselves a real team with a growing sense of self-esteem.
At 29, Robinho, a man who boasts 90 caps for Brazil and once a key figure for the likes of Real Madrid and Manchester City, now looks a shell of his former self, as evidenced by the fact that he is now usually a fixture on the substitute's bench and has made just two starts since November.
"Even if she wore a headscarf here, we know it is not her real self because she performs differently in other places, " he said.
It was self-deprecating humor that showed Christie to be a real human being.
But more recently, a real trend is emerging toward the use of data as a form of self expression.
In fact, they are a study in self-delusion: we visit them to encounter something real, then observe them through fake Indian tales, audio tours and IMAX films.
Only with real time measurement, and a centralized prospect and customer master, can a self-correcting, balanced sales execution system be created in an organization.
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Nor does she stoop to exaggeration, not even for a moment: Everybody onstage behaves like a real person, and the plot twists are allowed to happen rather than being self-consciously detonated.
But self-destructive terms of service aside, Skipity seems to be a real search engine.
Becoming a worthy leader is like developing any other capability: it requires honest self-reflection, real openness to learning (which includes an openness to being wrong and to not knowing), and a willingness to change your behavior.
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Shortly after, she got her first real cover, for Self, then became known as the catalog queen, for being a favorite with women's wear company Newport-News.
Heading each chapter is a paragraph charting the terrible progress of the disease in a real family, and making the connection between the death of the cell and the death of the self.
"It hasn't been a good week for us by any stretch, but let's be real, " Kansas coach Bill Self said.
The NFL, meanwhile, has a self-inflicted mess, as its players and fan base urge it to settle with its real officials.
That sounds a bit premature, since Fleck also concedes that the company has a lot more work to do in the coming year, including instituting a self-serve system to attract more advertisers, offering geographical and mobile targeting, and providing real-time performance data.
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According to Caldwell, a self-described Twitter groupie, there was a point when Twitter considered building a business around its real-time API, but instead opted to focus on advertising.
Yet, despite the real energy cost savings and environmental benefits associated with improving home energy efficiency, a series of barriers have prevented a self-sustaining retrofit market from forming.
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