Our future self is simply too abstract for most of us to worry much about.
Regarding the first assumption: the printed version of the Statistical Abstract sold for 40 bucks.
Beyond that, QE and related policies were not created in the abstract but for certain specific historic reasons.
This is not something I read in a briefing book. (Laughter.) This is not some abstract idea for us.
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Sitting at a tabletop console, Paik could produce abstract TV for broadcast.
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The new geographers are asking us to make more modest claims for abstract ideas and modern machines than we like to.
And Phillips's admiration for Abstract Expressionism, when that was still a suspect style, is evident in pieces by Richard Diebenkorn and Willem de Kooning, among others.
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Like many of the artists in his circle, Brooks abandoned his earlier, representational style for abstract content and broad brushstrokes that would come to define the postwar era.
The hero of 15 books by Lawrence Block, Scudder is a winningly smart-assed private eye who can shoot the breeze (and the bad guys) with the best of them, and has a capacity for abstract thought to boot.
Arabs such as the al-Thanis of Qatar pay record prices for the abstract expressionism of Mark Rothko.
And that sort of publicity could make privacy violations that once seemed abstract far more real for the plane-flying public.
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Today, local artist Souad Attabi makes no secret of the sources for her abstract paintings depicting Berber talismans, hung at the Bab Sebaa Gallery.
"Landscape with a farm, " a second figurative painting by Dutch artist Mondrian -- who is better known for his abstract works -- was left behind as the burglar ran away.
The Cascalog system has combined the Cascading system for abstraction of advanced data processing on Hadoop and other systems, the Datalog declarative programming language that is well suited for expressing database queries in an abstract form, and the Clojure language to create a declarative language for queries that can be run on Apache Hadoop.
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And I've been very explicit about how it should be paid for, not abstract, not rhetoric, very, very explicit.
To simplify Britain's messy state pensions in a way that rewards responsibility (David Cameron's favourite abstract noun) and pays for itself would be impressive.
Amir Bar-Lev directed this disquieting documentary, centered on the family of Marla Olmstead, a four-year-old girl who became a media sensation in 2004, when her abstract paintings began to sell for thousands of dollars.
This opens the door for thinking at an abstract level about products and services.
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It allows us to measure the quality of our experience, to compare it to an abstract ideal, and to yearn for change.
Still, the Prexige abstract is a highly promising sign for Novartis.
No one had Berlin's gift for dramatising and personalising abstract ideas.
When Wilde wrote that all excess as well as all renunciation brings its punishment, he evidently had in mind the contrast between Basil, who can conceive of his love for Dorian only in abstract terms, and Dorian, who is so intent on embracing the physical that he loses his mind.
But study results for Sutent on liver cancer look less promising, and an abstract already presented here seems to point to a far worse side-effect profile for Sutent than Nexavar in treating that form of the disease.
He studied art, dabbled as an abstract painter, and drew political cartoons for newspapers.
"We feel much stronger feelings for an individual than we do for ... an abstract group, " Hodges said.
The threat of catastrophe is for real - not an abstract scenario.
This test, which relies on abstract spatial thinking, will now account for about two-thirds of the score, while the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) will be about a third.
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For these people, the need for FEMA is neither political nor abstract.
In the former example, you can use anything from the Civil Rights Movement to The Scarlet Letter as evidence, while the latter likely begs more for examples from personal experience or abstract arguments.
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