Outside the SOEs, I see little evidence of the wasted investment I saw in Thailand at the time the phrase "golf course capitalism" was coined--before the Asian crisis back in 1997.
Repeating the same phrase at the beginning of successive sentences or paragraphs is a technique that can be very powerful if done correctly and not over-used.
Even as he pushed policies for economic growth, Mr. Reagan was accused of ignoring the social safety net ("shredding the social safety net" was the popular phrase at the time).
The bass and guitar are locked in together in a clipped, guttural snap that's equal parts Falco and The Gap Band, while Finn's drums offer an overeager gallop at the end of every phrase.
This would seem to violate the principle of network neutrality, at least as lobbyists have used the phrase.
In the circumstances, you wonder whether the phrase wasn't a deliberate glance at the poor benighted crew of the Essex.
That said, a large degree of what went wrong at HBOS was - to coin the phrase - systemic.
"Pepper's ghost" isn't the sort of phrase you hear very often at a show like SXSW. In amongst all the latest generation technology, there aren't too many folks discussing hundreds years old optical concepts.
This reminds of another conversation from a meeting in the week before with Ben Edwards, the VP of Digital Strategy at IBM, where he said that same exact phrase: the power to mobilize.
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If Spain tips into crisis in the next few months, the odds are that it will be because of something nasty happening to balance sheets at the local level which shocks the markets - in Donald Rumsfeld's phrase, that is the 'known unknown' that makes everyone nervous.
At the meeting, it is best to phrase things in the most positive way possible.
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In fact, the place at times took on the flavor of a giant interpersonal counseling session in which the phrase "the system" was invoked more than on any day since Abbie Hoffman died.
The phrase now belongs to you, at least as far as making t-shirts or promoting your bar goes.
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It was not tightly framed or focused on a single concept, nor was there a single clear phrase that summed up the speech, at least at first listen.
He also told how when he first became a vicar in south London, he was invited to a home where there was "a presence", a phrase he said he did not understand at the time.
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The phrase "US delete" leaps out at the reader, so consistently does it appear - often in company with Canada - particularly on anything relating to "common but differentiated responsibilities", the phrase that basically means rich and poor countries both have an interest in solving something but have different roles to play.
In 1993, he co-founded Informatica at a time when data integration was not nearly the buzz-phrase it is today.
To repeat, the differences between Greece and Iceland are many and various, but reading the report there was one other phrase that leapt out at me.
The most common phrase uttered to me - and not at rallies or public events but in meetings of chance, quietly, is not "I hate you" or "I like you" but "I would not have your job for all the world".
Facebook's management doesn't see any dichotomy in the phrase, "Go big or go home, " at least as far as it might pertain to Facebook Home.
International and national experts from the countries concerned are meeting on 12-13 June 2012 at UNESCO's Regional Office in Dakar to discuss the results of the first phrase.
McCain's campaign said Obama's remarks were offensive and a slap at vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, despite the fact that the Arizona senator himself used the phrase last year to describe a policy proposal of Hillary Clinton's.
Think of a short but powerful phrase that will take your mind off of the misfortune and back into the business at hand.
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