As a flight attendant for Pan Am in the seventies, being oppressed was the furthest thing from my mind.
"I've experienced times so difficult and felt boredom and loneliness to such a degree that it seemed to be a physical thing inside so thick it felt like it was choking me, trying to squeeze the sanity from my mind, the spirit from my soul, and the life from my body, " one New York inmate, William Blake, wrote in an essay posted by SolitaryWatch.com.
Yes, after a few days away from it all my mind does inevitably return to my business, yet with clarity that often eludes me in the daily rush of meetings, Skype pings, and emails.
But what stuck in my mind from the meeting was the cost of the fighter Rumsfeld cited.
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"There was never any doubt in my mind from the start that this match would go ahead, " he said.
And there are numerous examples of audit firms still earning at least as much of their fees from audit clients, or multiples of their audit fees, from what were, in my mind, supposed to be prohibited services to those companies.
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That is why after going the local artist route many years ago, I have gotten my last three pairs of boots from Surefoot, the biggest, and in my mind best, national retailer of custom ski boots.
"It's a way to get completely removed from strategies and clients and focus my mind on something else, " he says.
So when I heard about a company that is using artificial intelligence, data scraping, and database calculations as a means to predict what seed varieties a farmer should plant to get the maximum yield from their exact plot of ground, my mind immediately started to ponder how this could be applied to marketers.
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The op-ed on the risk of diabetes from statins had nothing to do with changing my mind.
Resolution in mind, my wife emerged from the basement lugging a giant box of abandoned cords, wires and contraptions.
And then he said, I realized one day breaking rocks, that they could take everything away from me -- everything -- but my mind and my heart.
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Chris thought I was losing my mind until he started reading some book where the protagonist starts chopping wood to keep from losing her mind.
In my mind, this person was protecting me from the rest of the world.
The result from last week is now firmly at the back of my mind and the difficulties this excellent English team pose are right back at the front.
"When we were doing RoboCup (an international robotics competition) it did not enter my mind that the learnings I would take from my students I had trained could be used to build a company like Kiva Systems, " he says.
In my mind this is the fractal idea with concern from and connections between all levels advancing the city, county, region, state, country, globe , galaxy.
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In my mind, the real power of Spark comes from all the apps that can interact with your lights, and more as it begins to develop an ecosystem that talks to other devices.
As the mind-numbing tech rehearsal rolled on, from my perspective in the orchestra the proscenium blurred and became a kind of silent screen on which the players signalled their meaning through gesture and mime.
During the drive home from school, I thought of the scars that riddle my body and mind.
Keep in mind what the purpose of this trip was, from my perspective.
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The childishness of the two of them had migrated somewhat to me, and, while I felt bad for them, their home, such as it was, taken from them, it was a relief to be back in my own mind, undistracted, uninvolved.
To my mind, however, another genre, biography, suffers from almost the opposite problem.
To my mind, the best argument supporting death tax repeal comes from an unusual source in the heart of the liberal U.S. northwest: T he Seattle Times.
In my mind, the more interesting experiments in online education are coming from platforms that are not tied to traditional institutions.
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In my mind, however, what really sets Mr. Stern apart from other North American sports leaders is the ability to market the NBA brand globally.
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