In particular, it involves ignoring your own needs and focusing your attention on the person speaking, a task made much more difficult by the way our brain works.

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Speaking to reporters at the task force ribbon-cutting ceremony, Mike Dorsey, a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service who is working directly with the JTF-CND to investigate computer crimes against DOD networks, said unauthorized attempts to access DOD systems are on the rise but that DOD does not have the resources to respond to every incident.

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The researchers deliberately used questionnaire responses written in Italian to increase the difficulty of the task for the English-speaking participants.

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In addition to speaking to agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force in the hospital January 7, Medunjanin was interviewed later that day at the FBI offices in New York, the federal prosecutors said in their letter.

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But many Anglicans see the Archbishop of Canterbury's greatest task as articulating the Christian message, speaking up for the poor and the marginalized.

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First, the business community must continue speaking to this issue with the right tone, a task that requires a delicate but achievable balancing act.

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Kofi Annan was speaking at the a meeting of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force in New York on 30 September.

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Speaking on CNN Friday morning, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said the president had appointed a separate task force to review the accounting standards issues.

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Speaking to reporters Annan called on the world community to support the commission members saying their work was the most important task for the U.N. and the Afghan interim government.

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