Can they let the energy price increase go through and not have it spill over?

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"When you're dealing with someone who really is a genius, it's not like you can say, 'Let's go find ourselves another genius, ' " says Patrick Sweeney, executive vice president at Caliper, an organizational consulting firm.

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Although much maligned, Emmanuel's call not to let a good crisis go to waste can be taken as a crass way of saying that every cloud has a silver lining.

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Let's face it, not everyone can afford to go out and blow hundreds of dollars on a swank universal touchscreen remote or home automation system in order to simplify their life, and for those who are forced to juggle the half-dozen or so remotes required to bring their AV system to life, this here invention is for you.

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But he adds that the prize can also be seen as "an exhortation not to let this huge project of genius which is the European Union go to the dogs simply because of national selfishness and short-sightedness".

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But let me go back to the point here: What we can do to ensure that that does not happen is take appropriate action in the next four or five days.

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