Also, having a ten figure balance in a checking and savings account does not seem to be a good idea either.

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Patti and Bob Webster had accumulated a six-figure balance in their 401(k) accounts and were building a dream house in North Carolina in 2007.

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The first six months after delivering her son were the hardest for Roark, as she struggled to figure out the balance between taking care of her newborn and having time for her own needs as basic as showering.

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As a result, utilities have to figure out how to balance the supply with the demand when the supply might fall short or exceed the need at any given time of the day.

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So now, not only do I have to figure out how to balance my life as a mom with my career as a tech CEO, I also have to worry about being perceived as incompetent simply because I breastfed my babies?

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As technologies evolve that the Founders could not have possibly anticipated -- from fully automatic weapons and thermal imagers to satellites and digital technologies -- we have to figure out how to balance our rights as individuals and needs as a society.

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Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith is trying to figure out how Europe can balance its local needs to have some sorts of data located within its borders with the need to get the economy of scale promised by cloud computing.

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To put that figure in context, reducing the burden of government spending by that much in America would balance the budget overnight.

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