But what the LDP and its partners are emphasizing on the stump is that they are not the opposition.

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So he was suggesting that maybe the vice president was emphasizing the glass half full, but acknowledged the realities on the ground.

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When asked about HP's mobile and tablet strategy, Todd skirted around by emphasizing the happy partnership between HP and Microsoft on tablets, but he also said that markets evolve and change all the time, and that his company's well aware of the differences between the needs of enterprises or small businesses and the needs of consumers.

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An alternative approach is to appeal to the classical Greek philosophy that views kindness through the lens of reason, emphasizing the positive effects acts of kindness have not just on the receiver of kindness but to the giver of kindness as well, not for the salvation of the soul in the afterlife, but in this life.

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There is, in fact, an amazing variety in the carvings of female torsos, including several 20, 000-year-old ones from the caves of Balzi Rossi, a site on the Mediterranean coast near Monaco, all emphasizing sexual features, but in different ways.

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