But how refreshing if it were to reflect a reawakened sense of courage in the country as a whole.

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Remember how refreshing it was when Starbucks used to hire young college kids (and Kwik Trip does the same)?

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How refreshing that some things remain the same.

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So it was refreshing to see how active some of these leaders were on Twitter because we could tune in from afar.

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It was refreshing to see how, without the obligation to be standard bearers for their parties, they can remove themselves from the demagoguery and use their unique perspectives and information to focus on practical solutions.

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What is frankly refreshing is to see how these parties will operate in a more unrestricted marketplace.

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In the case of each individual brand and across the industry, Murphy argued, share gains and losses will continue to be driven by how thoroughly and quickly each automaker is refreshing its product lineup.

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In August of 2003, the influential American Academy of Pediatrics released its first policy statement on how physicians should deal with the issue of childhood overweight, a refreshing development from an organization that for too long dealt with the issue by saying that parents should simply wait for their kids to grow out of their chubbiness.

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It was refreshing during the program to find providers who fully understood this and how it was imperative to move to a cloud-based model.

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