The biggest difference in purchase factors, as the chart shows, is the identity of the manufacturer, which I take to mean brand.
National competitiveness is a slippery and sometimes incoherent idea, but a coherent version is to take it to mean a population with the human capital to adapt when old jobs go away, and shift quickly out of dying industries and into growing ones.
Don't take that to mean Democrats have a free pass on the most controversial items now before Congress.
No one should take this to mean that a rate hike is imminent, even if markets begin anticipating it.
Some may take this to mean that British house prices are less likely to fall than certain other markets.
Reading between the lines, one might take this to mean that the U.S. stands ready to jump into the game if needed.
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In this country when we use the word prosciutto, most people take it to mean Prosciutto di Parma or a near sibling.
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And given that you stated that no options are off the table, should we take that to mean that you are considering some other options?
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And you could take it to mean an efficient government that supplies infrastructure and streamlined regulation that lets businesses seek out new opportunities when old businesses go away.
The cynical or the socially envious will take that to mean a feeling of protection from the hoi polloi, including the many of us who drive feeble regular cars.
And so, you know, many of the problems that Africa has now with this new generation of leaders, with this newly energized civil society, with people who are saying - you know, like the movie Network, we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore - I mean, there is a new vibrancy among those who want to see a renaissance in the continent.
To show you what I mean, let me take you back to 1962.
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Average Americans naively take the morality of altruism to mean good will, generosity, and human decency.
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As entrepreneurs, we know that this does not mean to take failure lightly if it were to happen, but that it is OK, and in fact necessary to step into uncertainty and risk if we are to find our full potential.
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Yet its failure to take radical action does not mean it has remained completely unchanged.
However, Demetri says that focusing on harder evidence, like survival data, does not have to mean it will take longer for drugs to be developed.
One is that it does seem to imply that the clerics might be giving a nod to the government, saying that, yes, this political process does mean something and we need to take part in it.
It is also a time for us to take note of the family and friends in our lives who mean so much to us.
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The Wall Street Journal Europe asked leading lights from international business, arts and culture to take a sentimental look at the watches and jewelry items that mean the most to them, and why.
This does not mean that Chileans will take to the streets, as they did in the 1980s recession.
National Museums of Scotland says high costs and reduced funding mean it has to take action at Shambellie House.
But fewer controllers will mean planes have to take off and land less frequently so as not to overload controllers on duty, he said.
"Just because the social Web is personal doesn't mean we have to take it personally, " says Lorrie Thomas, chief executive of Web Marketing Therapy, which helps professionals harness social media.
Researchers from Deakin University near Melbourne, Australia say tests on rats have shown the technology could also mean people need to take a third as much insulin as they do with when it is in its conventional form.
Instead of softening Germany's reserved attitude to arms exports, it could mean that Europe as a whole will be forced to take a more cautious attitude.
There is a vast collection of comments and analysis that says the best way to do that -- and this is vast, I mean, from a broad political spectrum -- the best way to do that is to take a balanced approach, significant cuts in defense -- I mean, in non-defense discretionary spending, significant cuts in defense spending, significant savings in entitlements, and significant savings from the tax code, plus interest.
And what I mean, be allowed to take it up, meaning simply getting unanimous consent to have a debate and a vote.
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