But the hope now must be that although Mr Irving will go on talking and writing, fewer and fewer people will be listening and reading.
Someone, after all, will have to make those painful decisions New Yorkers go on ineffectually talking about.
Bob Steel, a treasury under-secretary, accepts that on some issues the talking is likely to go on for years.
And as in the previous ad, the updates come to life as a ballerina performs on the dinner table and friends have a snowball fight while the boring relatives go on, you know, talking and listening to each other.
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So what extra revenues is everyone talking about that we can go spend on the poor?
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None of my sources, however, would go on the record to say the two companies are talking merger or takeover.
"The building will go dark on 6 January, but we have been talking to several parties and are looking forward to hearing more detailed expressions of interest next year, " he said.
His best-selling book, Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World, lays out his unique take on negotiating in a range of situations, from convincing a four-year-old to brush his teeth and go to bed on time, to an Indian woman talking her way out of an arranged marriage.
Barack Obama is talking about having his team go right to work on this stimulus package.
By the time Nicklaus was done talking, Kuchar was making plans to go to Merion on Tuesday.
They hired an ex-CIA agent to go in and sort of figure out the facts on the ground, and that there's talking about spiriting the boys away to the U.S. and eventually to United Arab Emirates.
But then you start talking to the guys working on those machines, creating products all across the country, you go into the diner and you meet folks who are raising their kids and working hard and trying to keep things together, and I'm reminded of the strength and the resilience and the perseverance of the American people.
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