"To the extent that a military service branch that is having basically an epidemic of post-traumatic stress disorder is not embracing it as an epidemic, but instead sees it as 'they're faking, '" he said.

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Embracing it is often humbling, but incredibly freeing.

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What this says to me is that there is increasing proof that the advertising industry, which was once notorious for a lot of talk but little real change, is now visibly embracing it, and finally leveraging its own creative skills to help ensure its future.

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But it is far from clear that in embracing this very modern form of freedom, libertarians are being true to the timeless verities embodied in America's founding documents.

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But instead of embracing these accomplishments, I started to realize the futility of it all.

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The key to its ambitious, all-embracing programme is that it does not consider literacy in isolation but as part of continuing education and learning throughout life.

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Most are embracing the technology and will therefore gain some revenue from it but the fact that the prices for VoIP are much lower means it will not be a cash cow in the same way as fixed telephone services have been in the past.

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But Nimble, and a growing number of CRM applications like it, is embracing social media.

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In short, the distributed workforce is nothing new, but what is new is the degree to which companies the world over are embracing it.

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