Kelman glared at Teja for a couple of weeks, barely talking to him, until it blew over.

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But how could Stringer get his devices talking to each other in a company whose executives were barely talking to each other?

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She says that she only has real conversations with her child over Facebook and the phone (an improvement over the classic parenting problem of barely talking to your kids at all).

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The biggest reveal is not that has left at 5:30 for years, in order to have dinner with her kids, but that she is now just barely comfortable talking about this publicly.

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"There are barely any signs saying what they are talking about, " Ms Mills said.

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It is depressing to be talking about inflation and recession after barely six years of expansion in Britain.

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Meanwhile, Wilson is talking up the prospects for extra support for companies where their market is barely there yet, such as tidal and wave renewable energy.

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The word 3D is barely being uttered at CES 2013, but just about all the major TV makers are talking about 4K or ultra-definition HDTV that has four times the resolution of those 1080p sets many of us now own.

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He mocked Ed Balls for talking of a big argument with ministers whilst, in fact, having a policy which is barely different.

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Perhaps the most important aspect of the campaign she's mounted with her group Friends of Lake Turkana (FoLT) consists of talking to the communities that make up a variegated and neglected social landscape with a literacy rate barely above 10%.

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