For the trade finance message it had to build up its infrastructure.

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And Xavier Huillard, the company's chief executive, is driving the company through times of austerity with a blunt message: Build and growth will come.

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In other words, enough money to get their message out, to build their campaign apparatus, to have a Get Out the Vote operation on Election Day.

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If they can get this message to the people it is meant for, they are going to build up a lot of excitement over Windows Phone 8.

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He contested the determination of his party (which at the time ruled Britain) to appease the Nazis, in the face of enormous public resistance to his message and over the blithe assurances of his nations intelligence services that Hitlers build-up either was not real or posed no threat.

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In both instances, GOPAC had initiated the use of the message that was in each of those projects as part of its political program to build a Republican majority in Congress.

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Now, if we listen to that message over the next two years, given the foundations that we've got to build on, given Gordon's enormous strength - and I do believe he is a strong person for a very difficult role - we can turn this around.

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Doing so would have served as an inspiring message to the talented 20-somethings in the audience (and there were many): build your company, make your fortune, amass power, and then become a food activist.

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