Through enough heart-to-heart talks and badgering, I came to see credit as an option only to be used for large, important purchases like homes or cars.

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But foreign policy and bilateral trade issues would be at the heart of formal talks with the government, our correspondent added.

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"There are huge campaigns not to drink and drive during the holidays, but no one talks about the heart dangers, " says Dr. Sharma.

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With an open heart we are vulnerable, as research professor Brene Brown describes in her popular Tedx talks on vulnerability and courage, with an open heart we connect.

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In another spot, created by ad agency Publicis of Dallas, part of Publicis Groupe, GSK researcher Eliot Ohlstein talks of losing his father to heart disease while Ohlstein toiled for 20 years to develop Coreg.

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Following the release of his second Pixelh8 album The Boy With The Digital Heart in 2007, Matthew said he was in talks with a big record label (which he isn't naming), but they seemed to want to create a whole new image for him.

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Children's heart operations remain suspended at Leeds General Infirmary despite a day of talks about the future of the unit.

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So it is strange that agriculture should now lie at the heart of two big global projects of the next year or so: the Doha round of trade talks and the eastward expansion of the European Union.

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