The definition is fluid, but popular culture, language, film, music and mass media all certainly fit the bill, and China is making or at least trying to make inroads on all those fronts around the world.

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The Rangers played with so much ferocity and resolve, killing five penalties, that they found themselves talking after the game about trying to play like this all the time, or at least more often.

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It is a compromise and a hassle if you are trying to do any work at all, other than reading e-mails or occasional web access.

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Rather than trying to improve all dimensions at once, I encourage companies to focus only on one or two critical items with each survey cycle (another reason to ideally conduct them once or twice a year).

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So, right now, it's really this open community, which is what the Internet was all designed initially to be, and now, a lot of folks are saying - big telecommunications and major companies like that, the largest telephone and cable companies are really trying to be gatekeepers in deciding which website go fast or slow or which won't load at all, and that could cause competition within the industry.

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Has this at all been distracting with what the President is trying to do with the fiscal cliff or other important matters?

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Or the hitter in a baseball game trying to concentrate on making contact with a small sphere coming at him at over 90 miles per hour while prone to curving or sinking at any time, all while tuning out 40, 000 or so screaming, clapping fans trying to energize the pitcher.

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