Outfitted with embedded technologies and new levels of intelligence, buildings are capable of self-communicating status, problems and issues.

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"She was that friend for me with whom I can talk about my financial status and family problems openly, " he says.

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Surefoot solved this problem by developing their own proprietary liner to address problems with the status quo, and this is what I got in my new pair.

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They challenge the status-quo and reframe problems, liberating an organization to think freely and out of the box.

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But Abbas is under pressure at home not to attend the conference unless it deals with the so-called "final status issues, " the thorniest problems dividing Israelis and Palestinians.

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Derek Randles, 74, from Stafford said staff at the hospital have "always been fantastic" and put its problems down to the decision to go for trust status.

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When communities face multi-generational, entrenched problems, we need fresh thinking to push against the status quo and identify the pivotal services or applications that can lead to lasting change.

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Connelly begins his race with two huge problems: his lack of a connection to the state of Maine and the status-quo political environment.

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Glasgow City Council's Andy Young said his council had adopted the same reactive approach as Edinburgh's and experienced the same problems in trying to establish what constituted 'common good' status for their registers.

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But problems also arise when it is governments that are relatively strong, and so able to confer special status on some pressure groups and withhold it from others.

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