There is an older book, 'Battling the Inner Dummy, ' that offers an interesting concept -- 'controlled trauma to induce transformation' and offers this illustration: 'Boot camp ... can be thought of as an example of controlled trauma that is designed to foster traits like loyalty and obedience.
And this can be, indeed should be, thought of as a stock of wealth.
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Mirabelle says when families visit the clinic, they often tell their doctors they don't have cockroaches or dust mites because they don't want to be thought of as dirty.
The power of this type of genetic analysis was demonstrated earlier this year when a study of 2, 000 breast cancers showed the cancer should be thought of as 10 completely separate diseases.
Healthy divas have what may be thought of as charismatic intelligence.
Everyone likes to be thought of as a contributor.
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Tacking on some more months of higher inflation can be thought of as spreading inflation over a longer time period.
Bruce was a great fan -- a great friend over the last year, and when I watched him on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when he rocked the National Mall before my inauguration, I thought it captured as well as anything the spirit of what America should be about.
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The printing press, pizza cutter, writing, paper, all can be thought of as being inventions worthy.
The new estate tax law can be thought of as a cliff tax.
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In the quantum world, things traditionally thought of as waves, such as light, can also be viewed as particles.
"It's not as much of a hassle as I thought it would be, " she said.
Conversely, things traditionally thought of as particles, such as atoms, can be seen as waves as well.
It is hard to believe that the countries that used to be thought of as tigers have become cats.
Dr Frank Duffy who is leading the investigation said the work could help determine if Asperger's should be thought of as an entirely separate condition.
In other areas, it is the Lib Dems and Tories who are closest, for example in their zeal for decentralising power and defending civil liberties (the latter a relatively new departure for the Tories, who used to be thought of as the authoritarian party).
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In effect he is saying that he prefers to be thought of as colossally inept rather than crooked.
Organizational leaders can be thought of as living in two worlds, simultaneously.
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Fans will be treated better by the organization if they are thought of as customers.
But nobody wants to be thought of as a has-been in the making.
It's likely that you will have a quiet night and you can use a price incentive or value promotion to attract customers - but as soon as you target a group of people in a serious way (through advertising), you are likely to be thought of as a restaurant catering just for that market.
Just as light can be thought of as both particles and waves, so can atoms.
Few things are as encompassing to culture as our currency, or as vital that they be thought free of intrigues.
Blockage of qi is thought to be manifested as tenderness on palpation.
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Not something normally seen on the street and something not normally thought of as likely to be subject to a street robbery.
Of course, for everyone who must sign that painfully large and inconvenient check and send it off to Uncle Sam on the 15th day of April, the fact that the number of people paying nothing in federal taxes may be not quite so large as they may have thought is of small consolation.
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It seems he wants to be thought of as a principled, ethical man, not a murderer.
Serious though things now are, the cloud over Asia should still be thought of as large and grey, rather than black and thundery.
Also, diesel was considered an alternative fuel and he wanted his brand to be thought of as an alternative to the clothing trends of the time.
It could be him, they thought, comparing it to the photo of Landers as a boy.
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