There is no other company on Wall Street that has had to deal with as much adversity and disappointment as RIM.

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The life is far from glamorous, involving much sacrifice, adversity and risk.

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In our day, politicians have readily shared much lesser tales of adversity than the nightmare world in which this man, and others equally brave, served and suffered for their country.

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"So definitely babies' brains try to level the playing field as much as possible to compensate for environmental adversity, " he says.

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And I suppose in adversity we have to draw as much as a sort of milk of that positive human goodwill as we can and really count on that.

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