An assertive American and an assertive Japanese may express themselves differently, but their performances are equally valuable.

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The customer gets what he wants without consuming the costly labor of knowledgeable sales clerks, or wasting his own equally valuable time.

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Truth and fiction can be equally valuable for a few hours.

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Lots of similarities, both equally valuable to an entire profession.

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Increasingly, employers are counting the two as equally valuable.

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Beyond the nuts and bolts of finances, he said such training can serve an equally valuable purpose: It forces farm families to prepare their sons and daughters to take over the business.

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Most importantly, I can thank INK for getting me a signed picture of one of my heroes, Mr. T, and the equally valuable picture of the INK team in mustaches, which according to the American Mustache Institute will improve the good looks of the agency by 38 percent.

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She said the government should ensure companies also shared the results of negative trials, which she believed could be equally as valuable.

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Yet equally, it is not hard to imagine that a clearer system of property rights would render hutong houses valuable propositions for private renovation.

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