Neuro-scientific research has now proven that when you choose to think new thoughts, repeatedly, and take new actions, repeatedly, those thoughts and actions gradually build new neural pathways in your brain that over time become your default thoughts and actions.

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Since the Argentine default, the use of collective actions clauses (CACs) to enforce restructurings has become the norm.

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Actions such as selling credit default swaps based on rotten loans, money laundering, interest rate manipulation, and excessive risk-taking can be as objectively determined as financial restatements.

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For the framing is different and what is different about that framing is what is the default state to which we should be comparing the effects of our actions?

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All of that means Facebook users are already in the habit of sharing their personal details and activities with other users on the site by default, and only opting out of the sharing functions for certain actions they want to keep private, says David McClure, an adviser to start-ups and guest lecturer at Stanford who teaches a class on Facebook.

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To prevent our nation from going into default, the Treasury secretary, Robert Rubin, has been forced to take extraordinary actions, and so far he has been successful.

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