To return power to affected homes, the utility would need to take time to understand the vulnerability and develop a patch.

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If you want to fix your customer experience problems, you need to understand and take control of your customer experience ecosystem.

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Mr. ANNAN: And I think we need to be able to take care of the concerns of Israel, and I understand the issue of rearmament that we need to make sure that arms do not come in either through the airports and the borders or through the seaports.

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We have the incredible ability to essentially take the types of information people need in order to understand healthcare and get it to them at the point when they need it most.

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You already have a brand, and in order to take control of it, you need to fully understand what it is.

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All you need do to understand this is take a look at the number of Congressional Democrats who cast their votes in support of the two pieces of legislation that produced the Bush tax cuts and compare those votes to the vote of the Congressional Democrats making those very cuts permanent for approximately 99 percent of all Americans.

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To understand, I need you to take off your fan hat and put on your CEO hat.

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Also, most colleges understand that students might need to take a year off, either before school or in the middle of their education, to save money.

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Furthermore, scientists think they understand the steps they need to take to genetically modify pig tissue so that it will not be rejected by the human immune system.

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Here's the thing people need to understand: It doesn't take much to make a big difference.

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Mike Mayo, managing director of the banks group at CLSA, said that his peers need to understand that good ethics is good business, even though adhering to good ethics may take more effort.

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