With several hundred politicians, diplomats and academics milling around one of the region's capitals, it is more like a big family gathering than an international summit.
"Like the poll tax, it is a big change being forced through too fast and, like the poll tax, there is not a consensus of support behind it, " he concluded.
It looks like Big Data is a great opportunity for IBM to use its capabilities to profit while helping organizations gain meaningful insight that can boost their market share.
In some cases it is triggered by a big income event like selling real estate or a business, taking a company public or winning a legal settlement.
When analyzing the stock through valuation ratios, shares trade at just 8x 12-month forward earnings, it looks like a fairly big slowdown is already baked into the stock price.
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"That doesn't sound like a big deal for a human-driven car, but it is a very big deal for the pioneering of computer-driven vehicles, " said Red Team leader, robotics professor William "Red" Whittaker.
So now, it's like I have to - my life is like Planters and fruit now, and living right do it, like - it's a big thing being in the desert, too.
Now, that sounds like a big number -- it is a big number.
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Now, that may not seem like a big deal when it just is numbers on a sheet of paper.
So when a collegiate organization like the Big Ten Conference is motivated to expand, most would like to think it's a school's academic, or even athletic, merits that put said institution at the top of the want list.
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"It is a big new idea in a system like ours, and it is part of the way the ground is shifting under us in higher education, " said Kevin Reilly, president of the University of Wisconsin System, which runs the state's 26 public-university campuses.
"How the sound reflects off this reflecting surface with this composite object on it - which is pretty big and has a cloaking shell on it - really reflects... just like a flat surface does, " Dr Cummer said.
It is a big, long established seafood restaurant that looks like a tourist trap amidst the T-shirt and souvenir shops of the Seattle waterfront.
After watching the still-unresolved partisan battle over the fiscal cliff, it is increasingly hard to imagine Congress and President Obama reaching anything like a big budget deal next year.
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And a big part of it is bought into by people like John Boehner.
Will you recognize that when I express fear it is just a process I go through, like checking the boxes before a big decision?
This groundbreaking series, that tells its story in real time, is so action-packed in the first fifteen minutes that it feels like a big-budget movie.
An invaluable benefit of undertaking something like the Big Venture Play is that it would drive tremendous learning around a whole range of issues, including technology, regulatory issues, customer behavior and preference, business models and venture partnerships.
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If done in the right way, it is possible to arrange several small mirrors so that they behave like fragments of a single big one.
"It's not like Big Blue is watching you, " says Rebecca Swanick, a marketing director at IBM's Rational software division, who uses the technology at trade shows.
"At present, if I detour the big cities and miss the most dangerous roads, it is looking like a total of 7, 000 or more miles, " said Mr Boon.
Small children sometimes stop to talk to the crew and watch them work, especially if the hopper blade is making a lot of grinding and crunching noises while it pulverizes something big, like a stove or a couch.
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Mr. BENOIT: Everybody's been talking about this is south Louisiana, and for it to be sprung up on everybody like it was a big surprise, it just kills me, you know, 'cause I know that this was not a surprise.
Peru is a big prize and Chavez would like nothing more than to bring it into his orbit further increasing his power and enlarging his Bolivarian Revolution.
So, a big short-term reason why people like this idea is it gives the Bank license - indeed forces it - to do more, in an environment in which interest rates are already at rock bottom and central banks are finding it hard to persuade businesses that normal rates of growth are going to come back.
Like India, China is as big and diverse as a continent, though it is ethnically far more homogeneous, with more than 90% belonging to the Han majority, and has spent far more of its history as a united nation.
It might not seem like a big deal with all the 1080p TVs these days, but 1080i is actually still the most prevalent broadcast format and the way it's currently rendered by the Echo makes it unwatchable.
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Mastering self-control is a big enough challenge, none of us should feel like we have to do it on our own.
It is the kind of stat reporters usually throw out at the top of a story, since it sounds like a big bump.
And it needs a big, new differentiator in its tablet products if it is to catch Apple in markets like China, where it lags badly.
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