The second difference was the strong focus on group discussion, attendee input, and relationship building.
This year the festival dispensed with red carpet photocalls and put more focus on debate and discussion.
Also, the FOMC meeting minutes were released Wednesday afternoon, with the main focus being a discussion on whether the Fed should use other indicators for its monetary policy guidance, especially when to start raising interest rates.
If Obama succeeds in getting Netanyahu on board, the American media discussion of sanctions will focus on the issue of Israeli power over US policy.
With the FOMC in wait-and-see mode, the ongoing discussion among participants around crafting a consensus forecast is likely to intensify, while other discussion may focus on what to do when Operation Twist ends in December.
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So what is the discussion going to focus on in terms of the next steps in the NATO mission?
While the main themes and the discussion around them will focus on the economic, speakers and thinkers from the world of science, technology and even the arts will also be Davos-bound.
It is fair to say that the focus of the discussion last night was mostly on fiscal and budgetary issues.
And in this discussion I'm going to focus on fourth quarter to fourth quarter percent changes, because I find these the most straightforward to interpret and to compare.
Although the draft discussion questions for the committee mostly focus on the safety issues, I suspect that the efficacy data will actually play a more important role in determining how the committee votes.
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Lately a lot of the international discussion about music has come to focus on ownership, a concept that itself is married to a history of legal disputes over sampling, band names, and musical compositions.
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British conservative Giles Chichester protested about the "internal German discussion", and asked MEPs to focus on "the European issue".
More transparency, more discussion, more leadership, more engagement, more focus on social communication at work and less focus on social networks externally.
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It would be a mistake to attempt to sideline this discussion to a group of experts or to only focus on environmental and health issues.
Based on the roundtable discussion, participants will determine a thematic focus and Chairs for the thematic workshops to take place at the Conference after the roundtable.
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These consultations will focus on the regional characteristics of groundwater use and will seek to promote discussion about the characteristics, priorities, visions and specific challenges to the region.
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More important than the particulars of these two devices, however, is the presence of the third (seriously hobbled) titan in this discussion: The human mind and its ability to focus on thick, complex material for a few hundred pages at a time.
The discussion is a financial-industry echo chamber at times, as insiders focus on regulatory minutiae.
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