• If anything, this was close to whistle-blowing: the person did not put their name in the data (in a self-important way), and in fact released a memo suggesting a clear whistle-blowing mentality in the second round of revelations.

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  • And it remains exactly the same organisation: a self-important body that treats its members like demi-gods and requires a super-majority of 60 votes even to break a filibuster.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • These participants ranked things -- friends, family, a hobby or a religious value -- that were important to them and wrote down a few sentences about why their top-ranked value was important (this is a standard self-affirmation exercise, Creswell says).

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  • Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter depicted Rolland as a self-important popinjay, contemptuous of any palate other than his own.

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  • But if anyone can take blogging from an almost obscure hobby for self-important would-be pundits to a revenue-generating phenomenon, it's Google.

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  • But the chocolate that Emmy Award winning Today Show co-host Hoda Kotb picked as her favorite thing was not a new, trendy, or self-important brand.

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  • "While it's important to treat your internship as a job interview, it's also important to make it a learning experience coupled with self-exploration, " says Holly Stroupe Vestal, a human resources consultant for Bank of America's Banking Center Channel, who was hired full time after her own internship.

    FORBES: Turn Your Internship Into Your Job

  • " 'Punching-above-our-weight' is a nice self-image for small countries, but it is much less important in world politics than being the heavyweights, " said NYU law professor Benedict Kingsbury.

    WSJ: 2012 London Olympics: Do Gold Medals Matter More Than Total Medals?

  • That is a welcome contrast to the self-important style of many lesser journalists' books about great events.

    ECONOMIST: Russia

  • This kind of modesty has often held women back in organizations, but the need to use social media professionally makes it overcoming a reluctance to self-market more important.

    FORBES: Women And The Art Of Self-Marketing

  • He told the BBC that questions of national sovereignty and self-government were just as important and the EU needed a "new, looser template of membership", based around trade and political co-operation, that could appeal to the UK and other like-minded countries.

    BBC: Vince Cable urges PM to avoid 'dangerous EU gamble'

  • Subsequent experiments showed that stress played an important role in the loss of self-control across a spectrum of behaviors, including gambling and the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and food.

    CNN: Stress may be causing your cravings

  • Rising inflation could prove to be an important obstacle in the way of a self-sustaining recovery, with its effects more likely to be seen in the second half of the year, according to equity strategist Mark Lamkin.

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  • It plays an important social role by offering a chance for self-expression in a communal setting.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • Knowing how to take a good smartphone self-portrait has been an important professional skill for Ms. Craig.

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  • It's important to have enough self-discipline to hit the pause button and appraise a situation.

    WSJ: The Columnists

  • More important, however, nationalists seem to have gained a political self-confidence that unionists now lack, born of both war-weariness and faith in the leadership of Sinn Fein and the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, the largest nationalist party.

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  • They are what is fundamentally important to us and give our lives meaning and a sense of self-worth, and that can quickly get scary.

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  • Midnight calls, clandestine meetings, threatening e-mail messages, not to mention cell phones used as obsessively as lances and shields in a jousting epic: the circuits never stop burning in this self-important but juicily entertaining public-affairs melodrama about big-time journalism and corporate villainy.

    NEWYORKER: The Insider

  • However, similar symptoms may also occur if there's an injury, swelling or infection of various parts of the male anatomy, so it is important that a physician make the diagnosis if something abnormal is found on a self-exam.

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  • Call it the "Bono Conundrum"--reconciling whether the great press a celebrity can garner for internationally important causes can outweigh their potentially shallow or self-serving reasons for getting involved in the first place.

    FORBES: Views on News

  • But more important than paychecks, a great teacher instills in his students character and a passion for self-instruction.

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  • For businesses that plan to aggressively utilize their blog as their primary website, or as an important marketing tool, it may be worth a bit of time and money into the self-hosting version.

    FORBES: 20 Must Have Tools For Small Businesses

  • Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel's most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons and a doomed love affair from the six-day war in 1967 to an army operation in the occupied territories in 2003.

    ECONOMIST: Books of the Year: Page turners | The

  • Whether we like it or not, motherhood is now only one important aspect of women's identity, no longer the key to achieving a sense of self-fulfillment.

    CNN: Why are rich nations' birthrates in free fall?

  • He recognised that a key motivator for many people is the desire to feel important, the nourishment of their self-esteem.

    ECONOMIST: Guru

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