Certainly my colleagues from London Business School and I rapidly convened a meeting to ask the simple question of what it is that face-to-face education does that could be superior to virtual education.
There are feelings of anxiety-hope-anticipation of meeting people you have worked with virtually but rarely met face-to-face that accelerates that bond building suddenly because you have spent more time to get to know them.
We live in a world filled with powerful technology that has enabled us to communicate faster and better, yet we seem to lack the simple face-to-face meeting that must take place when searching for clues and information in any type of investigation.
We believe that when it comes to Middle East peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, it is essential for direct face-to-fact negotiations to resume, and it is essential for each side to refrain from taking unilateral actions that make it more difficult to engage in face-to-face negotiations, and to allow that process to proceed to a point where a sustainable peace is possible.
Our opposition is based on one thing, which is our belief that a solution to this long conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only be resolved by face-to-face negotiations that will result in a Palestinian state and an Israeli state living side by side in peace and security.
"We're looking forward to offering consumers innovative face-to-face gaming experiences that let them stack and match the TETRIS shapes like never before, " said Jonathan Berkowitz, Vice President of Marketing for Hasbro Gaming.
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These recommendations take root based on personal, face-to-face communication that establishes sellers as trusted sources.
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Soon came the face-to-face moment that Nossel, who runs a New York company called Narativ, had been dreading.
At the very least, it will come up in conversation during one of occasional face-to-face meetings that the DOJ and European Commission has on both a senior and junior level.
Between now and August, as the Athens Olympic Games refocus world attention on modern Greece, millions of outsiders will come face-to-face with that nation, with all its flaws and enchantments.
To do that he has to confront the challenges that Detroit continues to face including a massive financial crisis that could lead to a state takeover if the economic situation in the Motor City does not stabilize soon.
All we're trying to do is get us to face up to that straight-up now, make the changes necessary, and let's win this peace.
So they have been very, very, very firm about we're going to see every single one of them, face-to-face interview, and that takes a while.
With so much communication via email these days, it can be hard to pull the trigger and initiate a face-to-face conversation when you sense that an online interaction is becoming too heated or simply too difficult to do well online.
I'm talking to the man face-to-face, and he says that he understands that a unified government, a pluralistic society, is important for success.
Other guys with a face like mine (particularly with a face like mine) may want to think twice before putting that face on a video and blasting it out to the world.
But I think what comes out of Thursday will be predicated on a willingness by both sides to sit down and have face-to-face discussions and look for that commonality.
All visas will now have to be issued face to face, so that scanning can take place.
In 2009, Jonathan Cooper, who was serving a 30-year manslaughter sentence in Mississippi, was brought to Chicago to face charges that he failed to register as a sex offender.
It makes little sense, he may have calculated, to appoint a fresh face as prime minister now, only for that face to be covered in mud in a couple of months' time.
Every month he has what he calls "parking-lot time" -- six half-hour face-to-face slots available to the first people that book, regardless of their position in the company.
One of the biggest issues that corporations have to face is that Twitter and Facebook are used by employees for both personal and professional reasons.
Although IBM employees have access to Sametime Unyte, a program that allows face-to-face video from practically every seat at the company, she says that IBM's remote conversations usually begin with instant messaging and only occasionally escalates into video conferencing.
That compelled Mr Ford to face the fact that consumers want companies above all to make their products safe.
You want to move pure transactions to the Internet, use online communication for information sharing and routine communication, and reserve face-to-face interaction for the activities that add the most value.
But my specific question is, what should we tell our constituents who know that Republicans have offered positive solutions to the challenges that Americans face and yet continue to hear out of the administration that we've offered nothing?
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Flip the tab onto its belly and you'll come face-to-face with the grippy, hard plastic that plays host to an extraneous bit of Lenovo branding and the slate's 5-megapixel camera module.
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But you want to look one another in the eye, talk face to face, feel that personal chemistry.
Darwen are another side without a win all season, and they face a difficult looking trip to face a Daisy Hill side that has won three successive league games.
"When we think of how impossible that might have seemed it gives us hope and optimism to face other situations that seem today impossible, " she told the audience.
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