The recent talk of reviving the Buffett Rule is a perfect illustration.
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Despite some excitable recent talk of sharing a carrier with France, the difficulty of agreeing what to do with such a shared vessel make that idea unworkable.
Recent talk of a Qatar-backed "Dream Football League, " which would have offered huge paydays to the world's top clubs to appear in a biannual tournament, briefly shocked the soccer world until the project proved to be a hoax.
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After the markets fell back in July, the favourite tales changed: the recent talk has been of something nasty in the woodshed.
Recent examples involve talk of a Dream Ticket and what some Democrats consider the nightmare of the Ken Starr investigation in the 1990s.
In recent weeks, talk of a government-created "bad bank" to absorb troubled assets resurfaced as a solution, as did a government insurance program to guarantee assets.
With a lot of recent talk concerning cord cutting, we believe that the wave has started to hit the kind of customers who might not typically be thinking about their content viewing options.
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In Obama's speech Tuesday night, he looked ahead to the general election, mentioning Clinton only to congratulate her on Indiana and avoiding all talk of recent campaign controversies.
So all the talk of recent days that the government has softened the language of Lords reform in response to last week's electoral drubbing is wide of the mark.
He has tried hard in recent weeks to talk the price of oil down.
Another notable beneficiary of recent LBO talk has been Best Buy (BBY).
In a recent talk show, he spoke of what it meant to him to have adopted a child from Russia.
Some recent talk about London has smacked of hubris, confusing its success as a financial centre with the favourable cyclical conditions that investors and traders have been enjoying.
Canadian carrier Wind Mobile has faced no small amount of tumult in recent months, culminating in direct control by Orascom and talk of shopping the provider around to the highest bidder.
There has been much talk in recent months about the prospect of Syria bolting the Iranian axis and becoming magically transformed into an ally of the West.
Some of the talk in recent days has been about how this "fresh and modern" couple will break new ground as they tour parts of Canada's vastness over nine days.
The talk of the town is the recent announcement he will be stepping aside to let other seeds grow at Apple.
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In a recent TED talk, Don Tapscott summarized the central components of the philosophy: collaboration, transparency, sharing and empowerment.
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The first explanation of their silence is that the recent talk about Fatah and Hamas forming a unity government is serious.
He, meanwhile, was squirming in his seat, desperate to escape, but stuck with making three hours of small-talk with his recent and best-forgotten conquest.
One way countries are stressing how investor-friendly they are is to quash any talk of nationalisation, which during the recent boom in commodities surfaced in certain places.
At the recent Greenville tournament, McKinnis gave a pep talk at the end of each day: "Be emotional out there, be yourself, " he told the contestants.
The conditions under which the Fed does anything other than talk will presumably be better than the conditions of the recent past.
Not too long ago I spent some time with Judith Umlas, Senior Vice President at the International Institute for Learning, to talk about her most recent book Grateful Leadership, Using the Power of Acknowledgement to Engage All your People and Achieve Superior Results.
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But then again, much of the present talk about ungovernability relates not to the recent past but to the immediate future.
There's been more "noise" in recent debates about the Bank of England's policy, with all the talk about nominal income targeting, negative interest rates, and other radical steps.
In a recent survey of Tokyo families, 10% of parents said that they did not talk to their spouse at all, and another 51% said they spent 30 minutes or less in conversation with each other each day.
My good friend, Ron Morris, a highly successful serial entrepreneur whose most recent venture is his own business talk radio network, told me that his first rule of negotiations is to never, ever, ever trade cash for a promise.
Perry, 48, and Stier, 50, set aside their lunch hour on a recent busy Friday to talk to The Associated Press about their Supreme Court case, the evolution of their activism for gay rights and family life.
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