The internet means that the discussion no longer needs to be face-to-face, though it involves fixes to ensure a statistically fair proportion of the unwebbed population is included.
Long, holiday weekends tend to bring families together- and that means lots of political discussion over a beverage of choice.
That means they have very substantive discussion and are both very serious about our relationship.
The House Ways and Means Committee has released several discussion drafts on pieces of the tax reform puzzle and formed working groups so committee members can dive into the details of the code.
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Mr. SYKES: Well, we have the means of opening up the discussion and getting all the different viewpoints, and so we're looking at setting up such a discussion initially online, in which people would talk about what are the characteristics of things that we call planets or planetary bodies, regardless of whether everybody agrees a definition of the outset.
While few doubt an important opportunity is at hand, there is much less discussion of what consumerization means in practice.
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For example, Greenpeace has led the discussion about what sustainability means in consumer electronics, PETA is driving the definition of human treatment of animals in the food industry and so on.
For this discussion, that essentially means nothing.
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Which means, once again, introducing the discussion of religion (or the lack thereof in this case) into the public school science curriculum.
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Stocks are falling around the globe as traders and investors are barraged with the horrific, disturbing scenes from Japan and the endless discussion of what the disaster means to the macro view.
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My teaching hospital is asking us to make 5% efficiency savings, with the threat that the cuts will be made for us if we don't identify them ourselves, with no discussion with managers as to what this means for clinical priorities.
And if we were to change the policies and to codify this without the proper discussion, without the proper understanding of what this means, then, in fact, we could be diminishing many of the positions in which they've been held.
Part of the response to Jolie's story has been an ongoing discussion about women's health, something that "means the world" to the actress.
There's been discussion about how we can restart our nuclear industry as a means of reducing our dependence on foreign oil and reducing greenhouse gases.
These forces are, if anything, likely to be more important in the future due to emerging world conditions and the contraction of American military forces to bases in the continental U.S. The discussion also appeared to confirm that the most cost- effective means of assuring the future viability of the manned bomber force would be through continued production of the B-2.
"And because it's happening in little pieces and little steps, we're not having a real public discussion and debate about the real underlying principles and values and what it all means, like we did when we had a giant Clinton health reform plan right in front of us that everyone could see and touch and debate, " Altman said.
It was a very comfortable discussion, and very easy for me to make the decision because PlayStation to me means top-quality gaming.
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The Project, which began in 2009 as a book compiled of stories about what it means to be a good man in the twenty-first century, has sparked a national discussion about both goodness and masculinity.
That is the discussion taking place right now, although the cost of a new and improved Metop system means the future satellites and their instruments will again be a batch-buy.
Which means that the only mention we get of it is the impact of it upon the budget: no discussion of why or the implications of it.
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That means the GSM Mobile World Congress, the telecommunications industry's largest annual trade show, will be abuzz with discussion of devices like "smart" meters that report a home's usage of electricity, natural gas or water back to the utility, and to your phone.
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