The ones that find a way to do this in relevant and entertaining ways tend to be remembered.

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After all, they are the ones who crafted the Do Not Call Act in such a way that campaigning politicians are immune from the law, although most other parties have to abide by it.

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But those choices were good ones: that multi-disciplinary training has contributed significantly to the way I do my job today.

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I've sat with people who got the specialist after their loved ones lost their lives and when it was too late to do the medical procedure, because the way these things are organized -- you heard John talk about his doctor friend who got fired.

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In practice, the way people feel about windmills may have as much to do with financial effects as with physical ones.

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The market's ups and downs may be unpredictable, yet there is a powerful tendency for funds that do relatively well in bull markets and badly in bear ones (or conversely) to continue to behave that way.

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Chris West, the group's vice president, says the way to do this is to harvest carbon-releasing dead trees and plant carbon-hungry new ones.

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Unfortunately, the math shows that even if there are a few of those brilliant stockpickers around, a vanishingly small number can do it consistently for more than a few years in a row, and you have no way of knowing which ones that will be in advance.

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