The one covered in soot sees a clean face while the other, peering into a dirty face, assumes his face must be sooty as well.
On one side it is clear that news like this can bring people down, but it could also push them to show the clean face of football.
When the young man jumps to the conclusion that either the sooty face or the clean face will exclusively be washed he is betraying an overreliance on modern thinking.
When the Rabbi reminds his would-be student that the man with the clean face will objectively see a dirty face and therefore wash, he is reminding the young man of the importance of modern objective thinking.
Clean alternatives face regulatory and other obstacles, while petrol, which is less polluting than coal, attracts disproportionately high taxes.
Unlike IT companies who face incumbents with higher cost structures, clean energy companies face incumbents like Exxon or Duke Energy with lower cost structures.
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Clean energy start-ups face enormous competitive challenges from Big Oil companies and other establishment firms.
Mr Bailey is expected to recommend that the retail, advertising and video industries be given 18 months to clean up their acts voluntarily, or face tougher government regulation.
In the face of intense competition in the clean energy sector, America faces two choices.
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The premise of the October deal was that, offered a face-saving way to come clean and find a better relationship with the West, Iran would quietly drop any weapons ambitions.
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"It helps to have a clean break with the past, and Perlman was the face of the business - the question is now whether they can find a full-time new visionary leader rather than just someone who was part of the previous team, " Ed Barton, director of digital media at Strategy Analytics, told the BBC.
Then he wiped his face and began to take quick breaths of the clean, healthy air.
Banking messes are horribly difficult to clean up unless the bankers, businessmen and government officials responsible face penalties, especially where, as in Japan, they have committed crimes as well as made blunders.
"I think I'm not going to wash my face until morning, and then I'll clean it off and I'll put it on in case I have to get up in the middle of the night, " she said.
In the next decade meeting our existing renewables and efficiency targets would safely close any "energy gap" we might face and cut emissions, while leaving plenty of potential to expand clean energy solutions like wind, tidal and solar even further later.
He was a stranger, a clean-shaven, middle-aged man, with a nose too small for his face.
Benefit cheats were given a confidential hotline six months ago to come clean on their fraud, with a warning that if they did not comply they would face harsh penalties under the new bill.
The activist tactics were different in the two cases and all perfectly legal, even though they may fly in the face of the pro-transparency trends that have dominated public and private sector efforts to clean up the mess of 2008.
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After being forced to clean up their balance sheets from the peak indebtedness levels seen in 2008, deleveraged consumers have been able to face increased costs of living, according to Brian Sozzi of Wall Street Strategies.
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