And when should you walk away from the telephone and shop, golf, or do whatever it is you need to do to get the issue at hand out of your mind, even if just temporarily?
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Linux fans wondering why they still don't have a friendly UEFI Secure Boot option for Windows 8 PCs won't get a solution in hand this week, but they'll at least get an explanation.
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In doing so, they must face their greatest fears head-on and get on with the business at hand.
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And when each of those distractions happens, it can take 20 minutes to regain focus and get back to the work at hand.
The Journal talked to Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who says it can take 23 minutes for a worker to get back to the task at hand after a distraction.
The money and the visibility will help, but it will be up to CEO Jeremy Stoppelman to get up tomorrow and the next day and the next and get to the real business at hand: building a business.
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They may get the information that they need at hand or some good responses to pick from.
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As soon as you get a ball in hand you want to go at it 100% but you have to err on the side of caution.
The Bush administration needs to continue to remain a neutral arbitrator in the process and get people to focus on the issue at hand -- the economy, not politics.
While his hands-off executive style may have allowed things at Kaplan to get out of hand in the first place, his commitment to upholding the family legacy ultimately ensured a rigorous response.
Comedian Eddie Izzard was on hand to get the riskier questions going, and at one stage Ed Miliband himself even called for a tougher grilling.
Sadly, the smallest of the quartet wasn't available on the show floor, but we did get a look at the other three tablets on hand, ranging from 8 inches to 10.1.
Fletcher, playing in only his third Twenty20 international, should have been dismissed when he skied Johnson high into the air but Mike Hussey failed to get a hand on the ball as he fell backwards at mid-on.
Alternatively they could go to someone like Mr Zygmuntowicz, Mr Greiner or another well-established modern violin-maker and get a beautifully hand-crafted instrument specially made for them at a price they can afford.
Many hostels now run tours and have staff member who are either local or who have lived in the destination for a long time, giving you more of a first-hand glance of the culture than you would get at a hotel.
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"It wasn't easy to get them to work and dedicate themselves to the task at hand, " said Mr. Baca.
Those eager to jump into the growing sector of social media may want to try their hand at this historic stock, but try not to get hasty.
On the other hand, true innovation at lightning pace means any developer will get some things wrong, and not be afraid of that.
Glance at the lower right-hand quadrant, and things get even gloomier.
Giant video screens were set up so the huge crowd could get a close-up look at Francis, and dozens of medical teams were on hand for any emergencies.
On the other hand, I would like to thank US Airways representatives for helping me get to Albany at the last minute the only remaining way for me to get home.
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"Even when the meeting is over, something called role transference can occur and people may still truly believe that you are against the issue at hand, when in fact you may have been merely trying to get people to think more broadly or deeply, " Damiano says.
Only at Bawku, in the far north-east, did the election get out of hand.
That sort of de haut en bas can get out of hand of course: one self-made man, Michael Heseltine, has been sneered at because he bought his own furniture rather than inheriting it.
If, on the other hand, you look at growth from the point-of-view of individual technologies, you get a very different picture.
Contestants get one five-minute break every hour, but otherwise must stand bolt upright with one hand on the pickup at all times.
For those that don't need to get that 0.34-inch thin tablet in hand immediately, you can order on Apple.com starting at 1AM PT .
Shakhtar's fans refused to be downcast as they urged their team on to try and get on the scoresheet at least but Valdes and Barca would not let them past, the keeper sticking his left hand out to brilliantly deny Henrik Mkhitaryan.
As an example of his community spirit, the jeweler recalled a gentleman who visited the store recently, explaining that his daughter, in labor at Lenox Hill Hospital a few blocks south, couldn't get her wedding band off her swollen hand and was in extreme pain.
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