Houston sees this new addition to Dropbox as yet another step toward making our digital lives flow more easily between the myriad of hardware and software combinations that make simple tasks, like sharing, a big headache.

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The next step is to try to staunch the flow proper with drilling mud, a mixture of water and clay minerals.

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Practicing each step until the awkward lurching turns into a flow.

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Rent-seeking and sheer profitability provide strong incentives for powerful pan-Asian logging networks to stay one step ahead of environmentalists trying to regulate the flow of logs from countries such as Indonesia.

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One way to cope is to step back a bit to really understand the ebb and flow of the market today.

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It may help to write out a flow chart, that way we can see every single step and keep breaking the steps down into smaller and smaller pieces.

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For example, some believe the government had little choice but to step in and take over the insolvent Fannie and Freddie enterprises, and the TALF program perhaps contributed to the flow of credit during the worst days of the financial crisis.

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The final step in this process of putting your unconscious mind to work for you in a conscious way is to manage the flow of communication between you and your audience, or in that meeting, or that conversation.

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