Five days of listening to Barnes recount the pattern of heists that began down the Texas Panhandle and proceeded north all the way up to Wisconsin, then back down to Kansas, until the trail tangled up in the fumbling ineptitude of the Bureau.

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For Levi Strauss, that road to success begins with listening to workers to identify their needs and aspirations at five pilot locations, in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Egypt, Haiti and Pakistan.

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She also told me that the first five minutes of any doorstep conversation with a potential voter was taken up with listening to how angry people were about expenses.

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George for her customer-focused approach, which extended to personally telephoning at least five customers a week, visiting branches and listening in on call center conversations.

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You know, when I was 15, 16, 17-years-old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music.

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