And we believe that the deficit reduction that is embedded upfront within the compromise reached with Congress should send a positive message that Washington is beginning to get serious about this issue.

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Conservative Baroness Morris of Bolton said a lack of female interpreters was hampering efforts to "get the message across" about the practice.

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"I think, together as a community, we need to think of ways to collaborate and get the message out" about storm-resistant construction, Ingargiola said.

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"The message that we're trying to get across is to not only have a really honest dialogue about the really damaging effects of broken relationships between females, but really figuring out why it is that girls are so competitive and hard on one another rather than seeing each other as allies, " says Parsekian.

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So we got Scottish Secretary Michael Moore with a puzzling message this week that seemed to call for the SNP to stop obsessing about independence and get on with governing, while calling for it to be clearer about its independence plans.

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