"I did not want to do it, but because I really needed my job and he implied that this was a condition of recertification, I reluctantly gave him the password, " he told Maryland lawmakers, who are considering outlawing the practice.

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If Buenos Aires were not so close to Porto Alegre, none of this would have happened, but I did not see that I was being subtly summoned or that this story needed me in order to be written.

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But I would argue that bubbles can be very positive, and this one is needed to kick start a long-sputtering economy.

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We needed to do some vast computing, but I also saw a lot of other workloads that could benefit from this.

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His "I tell it like it is" approach has indeed won him support amongst voters, but this time he also needed to reassure his own troops about both his political judgements and his leadership abilities and commitment.

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