In a words-are-cheap world, deals are sealed with sincere smiles and straightforward signals.
"A grandmother in Louisville and a teenager in Silicon Valley might put the same two words in a search box, but they don't want similar things, " Nazem says.
"In a few words I could say we're very sorry that she was in the wrong place in the wrong moment, " Gov. Guillermo Padres Elias said.
So, it's kind of a play on words in his - a play on words - a creative word play that he was doing here.
Haiku, the Japanese structured poem of 17 syllables, delivers in a few words something distinct and often complex.
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In addition to the war for talent, the two companies have engaged in a war of words in recent days over data-sharing practices.
At the time, users typed in a few words and got a list of thousands of Web sites using those words, but most of the results were irrelevant.
Days later, I'm still appalled that a magnificent sprinter like Johnson, a thoughtful and well-spoken fellow, a noble man-god, would lose his cool in a rivalry of words with a cheap, two-dollar-pistol-of-a-sprinter named Maurice Greene.
Opinion polls invariably reveal distaste for the idea of a President Hattersley or Patten, in other words a head of state elected from among retired or second-rank politicians on the German model.
The boy is able to read and write and spoke mainly in English with a few words in German, authorities said.
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Instead, the investigators said, the data was kept in a hashed form - in other words the telephone numbers were transformed into a short code and stored.
So full of life, he was a man both confident in himself and curious about others, alive to the world around him with a character that is captured in the words of a Mathew Arnold poem that he admired.
Actual genes are buried in stretches of what appear to be gibberish DNA. Picking them out is a bit like finding the words in a word-search game.
We didn't quite pass the test in Copenhagen because we couldn't get an agreement on a long-term treaty - in other words everybody feeling bound in to a common strategy that would last for ten years.
During a stop in Blackburn, Straw summoned up his Beatles trivia to tell Rice that Lennon -- who was murdered in New York by a deranged fan in 1980 -- penned those words after reading a story in the Daily Mail newspaper.
Yesterday's 'call' on the WJEC to regrade has just been, well, upgraded to a formal direction - in other words, a ministerial demand.
The findings could have promising implications for diseases that involve a neurogenesis deficit -- in other words, a lack of new brain cells being born -- which happens in conditions such as depression, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, the authors said.
His favourite composition, in a raga named after a town linked in Hindu mythology to the god Krishna, used words in praise of a 12th-century Sufi saint, Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti, the saviour of the poor.
Mr Mandelson is more than keen to enter the cabinet, and it might be time for Mr Blair to give him a "proper" job - in other words, a department to care for.
Like buying a new car, in other words, getting a new hip can be delayed.
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The Guardian loves it when they get a writer who can write 1000 words in a day.
However, he did tell us that a rig equipped with 2GB of RAM and a dual-core processor running at 2GHz can easily support up to 6 displays showing pictures "with a little video" -- in other words: a couple of Flash videos (not 6x DivX rips) along side your Office applications.
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Much of the work is mind-numbing document review, my source says, sitting in a Midtown office in front of a computer, searching for highlighted words or phrases and quickly assessing their value as evidence in the case.
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They will fall asleep at five in the morning, after exchanging a few words in the bathroom.
As an object, the Constitution has more in common with the Dead Sea Scrolls than with what we now think of as writing: pixels floating on a screen, words suspended in a digital cloud, bubbles of text.
And most of the news coverage, like this article, called the debate a draw--"a low-scoring pitchers' duel, " in the words of a CBS commentary.
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For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, a word cloud is a visual representation of the most frequently used words in a given document or, in this case, a speech.
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And, in fact, I later found almost those exact words in a book that is now dear to me, by the same sailor, cited by the first man, who had written of the gifts of the sea.
An image often can communicate "the depths of pain" in a way that words alone cannot, Newman said.
As far as the story is concerned, dialogue can do in a handful of words what might otherwise take a paragraph.
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