What we mean by this is that you start a discussion with your boss by expressing commitment to a cause, institution, or other code of conduct that you know your boss feels strongly about.

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After a plan for a future Syria was drafted at a fractious meeting of the many opposition groups in Cairo in July, a committee has been trying to start a discussion with fighters and regime supporters, minorities and Islamists inside the country.

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"If we start with the actions next week, which we intend to, to move from a conceptual discussion to implementation phase, we'll start to make commitments that then become very difficult to come out of, " he said.

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For anyone with moderate or low risk, a decision to start or stay on a statin should be subject to individual belief and judgment and a discussion with a physician, he said.

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