Mr. MILLER: To be honest, a lot of the acceptance speeches in Sci-Tech, there's more of a problem of them being too short sometimes.

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"There are an awful lot of barriers to gaining acceptance in the market place, " he said.

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Yego had to battle "a lot of challenges" to gain acceptance in his own country as a world-class athlete.

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Ironically, such productivity gains that improve the lot of workers are based on acceptance of new technology, including labor-saving technology.

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