Another female staffer, having overheard our exchange related a conversation she had with her own mother around the holidays.

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An underlying theme of the weekend gathering was greater understanding through the exchange of, and conversation about ideas.

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The exchange versus dark pool conversation continued between Larry Leibowitz, chief operating officer of NYSE Euronext, and Dan Mathisson, managing director at Credit Suisse Securities.

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It is rather like one of the buffet dinners so favoured by global gatherings, where you have to balance a wine glass and a plate in one hand, feed yourself with the other, try and have a sensible conversation and exchange cards with three people at the same time.

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Do you think the conversation they had was sort of a conversation about the issue, the exchange of ideas?

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That said, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to delete or move a single message in a conversation, but rather I must edit the whole exchange.

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When I treated the interview more as a conversation with a purpose than as a sterile interrogation, the tone of the exchange softened.

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