Ask any member of the Davenport Zither Ensemble, and you'll hear the real reason they get together every Saturday morning.

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Dusek says it's now a dead issue and that there's no reason to hear any more from Jamail.

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It is why we cannot distinguish words or sentences when we first hear a foreign language and the reason it sounds instead like a single stream of noise.

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For some reason I never seem to hear much about them in the news.

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The interdependence of all our senses, often an unconscious interplay, is the reason we can often see what we hear or taste what we see, known as synesthesia.

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The reason I do these kinds of events is I want you to hear from me directly.

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And the reason I came today to be able to sit down with him is to hear the joint plans developed between the Iraqi government, the sovereign government of Iraq, and our government, to make sure that we accelerate the transfer of capacity to the Prime Minister.

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When leaders in organizations attend to those three reason for resistance and support, I have seen resistance or complacency turn to a willingness to hear more and then to a commitment to support the change.

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And, finally, the third reason that we had to take this on is because the deficit and the debt that you hear everybody getting in a tizzy about -- properly so -- the vast majority of our long-term debt is driven by Medicare and Medicaid.

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