Clearly these are not the risks we want CEOs to take, but they are the logical consequence of the way we remunerate them.

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The price of our freedom has been far too high for any of us to ever take it for granted, and the consequence of non-participation in our right to vote is far too great for any of us to ignore.

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Or co-host a part of the TakePart TV YouTube channel for people to post their short videos of what they most liked about the movie and the action they will take as a consequence of seeing it.

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And to take it then from the status of what consequence it had to that fellow American citizen to the next step is, in my judgment, an easier one.

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The answer, at least for judgments of more consequence than where to take one's next holiday, is that the effects are real but mutable.

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It's time to start the process of making sure that the building blocks of preventive measures take place to guarantee that concussions will never just be looked at as just another consequence of the game.

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What I also said at the time was we are then going to make sure, number one, that we pay down whatever additional deficit had been added as a consequence of the Recovery Act and other steps that we had to take last year.

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