So far, so quirky and the sort of thing that is happening out there thousands of times a week among us hundreds of millions on these here intertubes.

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To continue moving forward we must draw on the effort that allowed us to succeed here today -- engagement among nations that represent a baseline of mutual interest and mutual respect.

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We must show our unity, our cooperation among ourselves, before we can persuade foreigners to come here and help us in our economy.

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Gasoline is unusual among the things that we buy for a lot of reasons, and here to help us understand why we feel differently about the price of gas than we do about just of anything else is Valerie Folkes from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

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They were among the Gold Star families I met with, and we thank them for being here with us today.

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But that brings us to our methodology (stay with us here), one we've consistently used to smooth out the statistical disparities among baseball's various eras.

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