And, you know, one of the things that I'm always battling - and I've only been on the national stage for a couple of years now - is that tendency to edit yourself so much that, at a certain point, you stop sounding like a regular person and you start taking on, you know, the persona of, you know, those bad politicians in TV movies...

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The inference clearly being that those intent on wrongdoing are prepared to tolerate the high-sounding and well-meaning corporate governance restrictions only to the point where such regulations do not inhibit the making of a buck or the avoidance of a loss.

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Until recently the Iranians had played hard to get, sometimes sounding keen to talk but at other times saying brusquely that they saw no point.

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The second set of words that Ferriss says have no place in the lexicon of body issues and goals are what he describes as both nebulous and scientific-sounding, but have become so overused that their meanings are muddled to the point of ineffectiveness.

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