This is not something I read in a briefing book. (Laughter.) This is not some abstract idea for us.
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To ascribe Asian success to some abstract number is to trivialize it.
All too many people today are ideologues, who are willing to cause any sort of real-world difficulty in their devotion to some abstract principle.
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By pointing out where science protrudes most visibly into the world, Mr Pohl's aim is to demonstrate that it is not some abstract activity, but is instead ubiquitous.
Much fuss and hullabaloo has been made over Ezra Klein lately who has, apparently, stepped outside of some abstract journalistic standards in order to play the part as activist.
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Russia therefore has quite good relations with some countries that are democratic, and quite bad relations with some countries that are autocratic: it determines its policies on a case by case basis not through reference to some abstract ideological construct.
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But part of it is starting with awareness and making sure that people see the faces of these families -- through you, you know, so that it's not just some abstract story, but there's a real kid and real families behind it.
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He was a biotech and healthcare portfolio manager for Investor AB and, later, an engineer in the startup arena before coming to Google to spin up Ventures, which formally launched in 2009 -- with some particularly abstract goals.
To exemplify these rather abstract observations with some specific companies, I thought it would be instructive to look at the Top Deals of 2007 , the annual list that is pulled together and annotated well by FierceBiotech.
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The jagged break with the High Modernist creed of Abstract Expressionism is in some instances easier to see in this sideshow than in the main rooms.
Then, in the second gallery, a new world of possibilities seems to be opening up, with some of Sir Anthony's earliest abstract sculptures from the 1960s, open-work forms in painted steel and aluminium, all resting on the ground.
We spent the year speaking to some of tech's top minds -- abstract thinkers like Douglas Rushkoff and DJ Spooky, representatives from leading companies like Google and Sony, modders like Ben Heck and researchers at top universities including MIT and Carnegie Mellon.
The attached abstract (apparently distributed at ISEF) answers some questions while raising new questions for the cynics.
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Along with some of his failed attempts from the 1950s to be a pure abstract painter, this section features the pivotal "Look Mickey" from 1961.
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And I know that sometimes all this squabbling in Washington seems very abstract, and in the abstract, people like the idea, there must be some spending we can cut, there must be some waste out there.
So let me try to make the point in a less abstract and snarky fashion, and see if that clears up some of the confusion.
The abstract nature of the exam actually makes it more susceptible to test preparation, some argue.
With the new emphasis on more casual games, some of the most popular titles involve inoffensive pastimes such as constructing electronic cities, completing abstract logic puzzles or managing a virtual football team.
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