How did we get into -- how did we not ask the right questions?

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But how did we get into this real estate mess in the first place?

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How did we get to a point where a company thinks it can improve its prospects by wasting customers' time?

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So, I just wanted to ask, how did we get here?

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One can reasonably ask, how did we get into this quandary?

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And Kenyans are saying, how did we get to this point?

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But first, how did we get to this point?

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How did we get to this point?

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So I went to NPR's Mike Shuster, diplomatic correspondent, been in the region a lot, read a lot, a lot of reporting, to put this series of questions to him: How did we get to where we area?

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So, then, how did we get from those initial doubts to the launching of the Glass Collective, dedicating millions of dollars to finding, funding and fostering innovative applications (not just of the software variety) for Google's new wearable?

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But how did we get here?

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And how did we not get the truth after?

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"We couldn't get any ball, and even though we showed how dangerous we were when we did get it, ultimately we had no set piece, " said Lineen.

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We did get into some spots where we did not know how to get out of the music...

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So How did we manage to get angels interested?

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First, how the heck did we get here?

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How in the world did we get here?

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So if we only did it with cuts, if we did not get any revenue to help close this gap between how much money is coming in and how much money is going out, then a lot of ordinary people would be hurt and the country as a whole would be hurt.

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This raises the obvious question: How can we ensure that Wall Street doesn't get carried away as it did before the 2008 meltdown?

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"It wasn't great conditions there underfoot and we came over here with the attitude, you know, just want to get the job done and we didn't care how we did it and that's how we did it, we did it the hard way, " Blair added.

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I'm not going to get into strategy of how many we plan to do, how many we did.

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When did we get to the point that we no longer allow common sense to dictate how we use products for our home, family and pets?

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Sadly, we were hustled out of the event before we could get lost in a game of Crash Bandicoot, but we did linger long enough to see how nicely the onscreen controls fill one of the S2's panels, with the game taking over the other.

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