In the former mode, the idea is to battle your way through the competition to become Champion of Springfield.

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The Evening Standard went into full-on campaign mode and the parking idea looked untenable.

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Waiting until the crisis happens will leave you making key decisions while in a panicked mode, which is never a good idea.

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Floyd founded Efficient in 1993 with the idea of using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), an industrial-strength packet technology, to route data around local area networks.

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"We loved the idea of working in perpetual startup mode, " says Hsieh.

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The idea was to pop the D3200 into manual mode, force the shutter to stay open for 30 to 60 seconds while on a tripod, and use the camera to trigger the shutter as to avoid camera shake from mashing the button on the body itself.

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Nike, for example, came to the subject in defensive mode: it was attacked in the early 1990s, when the idea of corporate responsibility had barely surfaced.

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