But in this moment, as in so many others like it, when I took stock of their unhappy reaction to what I said, I felt myself at the cold, hard center of a perfect storm: We expect more from technology and less from each other.
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Mr. Obama ran hard to the center on economic issues to win the general election.
"Mr. Blackwell's worked very hard to become the center of attention in Ohio, " The Plain Dealer quoted Coleman as saying.
If you want the ultimate HD media machine, it is hard to beat Vista Media Center.
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Meanwhile, Intel has been pushing its data center business, hard, which stands to gain regardless of whether the PC business is upended by smart phones and tablets.
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These materials can be reviewed on the Center's web site (www.security-policy.org) or obtained in "hard-copy" form by contacting the Center.
Keep the hard-hitting information front and center (value proposition, revenue, customer numbers and corporate strategy).
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Managing identity is hard to do in a traditional data center comprised of heterogeneous systems and applications.
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And no matter what your feeling are about Microsoft, it's hard to argue that the Vista Media Center isn't a pleasure to use.
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The super-regional banks, he argues, are better investment vehicles than the money-center banks, whose profits are hard to divine.
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Digital Entertainment, LLC predicts that the solution's movie content ultimately will encompass more than 4000 major titles from multiple studio and distribution partners, which will be delivered direct to consumers via hard drives that may be swapped into the Center's drive-bays.
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According to Chad Kolton, a spokesman for the FBI's Terror Screening Center, there wasn't enough hard evidence to back up AbdulMutallab's father's fears, and so he wasn't placed on the terror list.
Looking at the destruction, it's hard to believe some patients walked out of the medical center without a scratch.
Someone who can take a once great retail chain with tremendous geographical reach, strong legacy and roots in selling high margin hard to understand products and turn it into a profit center.
The scale of human trafficking in the US is hard to gauge, but the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, operated by Polaris Project since December 2007, has received more than 57, 000 calls from every state in the union.
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Dubai's energetic, tax-hating ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, is pushing hard to make the state a regional high-tech center as well, one reason he looked favorably upon the founding five years ago of The American University in Dubai (where yours truly gave the spring commencement address).
Ms. SHIELA KRUMHOLZ (Director, Center for Responsive Politics): It's hard not to be dazzled by these dollars.
At first glance, it's hard to fathom all the angst over the Pittsburgh-based Center for Sustainable Shale Development.
But for a hard drive, PalmOne could have developed the iPod or Portable Media Center.
Some are so vast that the center is a countertop "dead zone, " a hard-to-reach place for spills to puddle.
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Local organizations, from the reintegration center for child soldiers to the rehabilitation center for survivors of sexual violence, are working as hard as they can to provide solace and a hopeful future for those most physically and emotionally harmed by the conflict.
But Heather Conley, director of Europe program for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says it's hard to know the far-reaching implications of this one-off deal.
Both Sarkozy, of the center-right UMP party, and Hollande have been working hard to reach out to France's undecided voters in the two weeks since the first-round vote on April 22 left them the only two still in the race.
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Translating medical research into practice is never easy, but Dr. Ben Abella, a co-author on the Circulation paper and the clinical research director of the Center for Resuscitation Science, says that hypothermia is an especially hard pill for some to swallow.
The recent turmoil in the banking sector has hit the British job market hard--particularly in "the City, " London's financial center.
Dr. Ilan Shalef, head of medical imaging at Soroka University Medical Center, told CNN on Monday that Sharon's reactions are hard to interpret.
Neuroscientist Paul Zak, author of The Moral Molecule, has studied the trust trap extensively at the Claremont Graduate University Center for Neuoroeconomic Studies, and says that we all suffer a hard-wired disadvantage when it comes to identifying well-structured cons.
Julianne Smith, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says this has made Afghanistan a hard sell back home.
Lenore Seeley(ph), who heads a federally funded job center called Central New York Works, says manufacturing jobs like that are hard to find in Syracuse these days.
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