Ensuring that the power utilities do not use their monopoly to squeeze out new entrants will be one important task.

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One important task for philosophers here is the attempt to achieve conceptual clarity, and offer diagnoses of why speculation can result in confusion.

ECONOMIST: Philosophy of consciousness

Give your full, undivided attention to the one, important task at hand before moving on to the next.

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One particularly important task, Kanas explained, will be picking a team of astronauts who can both work and get along with each other on a trip lasting at least two years, spent mostly within the confines of a not-so-big spacecraft sailing through the dark.

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