Making smart decisions about money means confronting reality and acknowledging that our internal wiring sometimes misleads us.

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Defense planners also changed prospective war outcomes to avoid confronting the reality of force structure shortfalls.

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It is also confronting the grim reality that, in a world filled with e-mail and cell phones, greeting card sales are flat.

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They somehow change bodies, and each man finds himself confronting a frightening new reality.

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And the years have a way of racing by, confronting the present with a new reality.

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There's one final contradiction between rhetoric and reality that's worth confronting.

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Well, that is a debate I welcome, because I think the Democrats have a much better grasp of the reality of the situation that we are confronting.

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When I first graduated from college almost 20 years ago, I quickly learned that I was not prepared to have conversations with experienced business professionals on the reality of the business challenges they were confronting.

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The demonization of Obama beyond all reason and reality only adds to the credibility gap that conservatives are now confronting.

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