But all of you want to build -- and that is something essential about America.

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Two of the big brains behind those essential toys say they will build the basis of smart--really smart, like humans--machines, everywhere.

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Use them now as the essential tool they are to re-establish business and build the foundations of recovery.

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Across the country, beer with flavor has been an essential component in helping some bars build community, instantly giving would-be regulars something in common.

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For this reason, it is essential to understand local impacts and to build adaptation planning and action around community-level concerns, priorities and aspirations.

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In fact, administrative overhead is essential if we are to develop programs that go beyond Band-Aid responses and build the kind of infrastructure and collaborations that address the root causes of social ills.

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Recently, it has become fashionable to play down that progress by pointing out that many of the new democracies have not gone beyond elections to build the other, essential, protections for liberty: an independent judiciary, equality before a well-enforced rule of law, and constitutional limits on the abuse of political power.

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