On the phone I hear whether you are upset or not, that you are delighted with the news or otherwise, I can hear a long pause and read something into it, and generally get it right.

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Pinterest, I can hear the Facebook team exclaiming, through clenched teeth, is not supposed to be about relationship building or branding.

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One fault I can lay at the feet of Obama and his speechwriters is that I did not hear a lot of memorable phrases or sound bites from this speech.

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It already gives consumers access to more music choices than radio ever did: I can listen to tens of thousands of songs, not just the pablum that some radio exec wants me to hear.

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