There was even talk among judges of a possible Nobel Prize far in the future.
And there were -- at times, we needed to -- each side wanted to just talk among themselves.
The growing talk among Republicans of what would replace "repeal" is an early indicator of the changes afoot.
But recently there has been talk among oil analysts that all is not well in the desert kingdom.
There is talk among sports bankers that Charlotte Bobcats owner and former National Basketball Association superstar Michael Jordan is looking for investors.
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In fact, there has even been some talk among conservative opinion leaders that indicate a willingness to raise taxes on upper income taxpayers.
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According to Jules Schaeffer, Merck's executive director of basic research, he remembers talk among Merck executives about doing work on Alzheimer's nine years ago.
There is talk among some applicant countries of regarding the Brussels deal as merely an opening position for the final stage of the accession negotiations.
Talk among panelists turned to money-losing Chinese startups such as video sharing site Tudou that managed to go public and in spite of tough market conditions.
If you'll let me finish, I'll bet you - I'll finish, and then you can go and talk among yourselves and maybe even decide that I'm wrong.
Commerzbank shares lost 4.3%, in Frankfurt, in spite of talk among traders that the German bank was dropping its bid for Citigroup's German assets, according to TradeTheNews.
Just think how powerful it would be for several million families to talk among their members about money and what this could do to teach their children about money.
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My guess is that brands won't be defined solely by the vendor but by the community of users who can talk among themselves on the Web. n Vast new markets are guaranteed.
With large airlines cooling the merger talk among themselves right now, experts think the better play is to go after small carriers that can feed passengers to long-haul flights, especially the lucrative international routes.
Craig says that the shop talk among his fellow recruiters is that although they did fewer deals in 2012 than they had hoped, those deals that got done involved more high-end producers than was expected: a case of quality over quantity.
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There has been a lot of talk among politicians and experts in emergency preparedness about changing FEMA. I want to talk about it as an expert on profoundly changing complex organizations, a subject I've written about in my books Leading Change and The Heart of Change.
In early December, an individual investor in Facebook shared with me the talk among in-the-know investors: that the limited liability companies being created to buy shares of Facebook stock on the secondary market were somehow exploiting an SEC loophole that limits the number of shareholders in private companies to 499.
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It is probably encouraging that there is growing talk among European regulators and ministers that the eurozone's bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, should be able to buy Greek bonds in the market and then only demand repayment from Greece of the price actually paid for those bonds, the amount actually invested in the bonds.
She was in Las Vegas for the eighth annual Def Con conference where she gave a talk on among other things, search and seizure laws.
Paternalistic double-talk is rampant among suppliers, which tellingly often apply the term "customer" to distributors and retailers rather than to the people who buy their products.
Obviously there's been some talk, at least among some of the Democrats, of additional taxes, various things that -- and also the discussion of taxing the employer benefits.
It will be the one place where all Europeans can talk to one another, among themselves, with no Americans or other outsiders at the table.
The mood among the workers I talk to is worried, if stoic, unwilling to contemplate exactly what it would mean to lose their job.
And you talk about something that causes heartburn among America's businessmen and women, and that is the prospect that we would engage in those kinds of shenanigans.
That has fueled talk of "intramural" battles among cabinet members.
Billionaire Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, and CNN talk show host Larry King are among those who have signed on to have their genes sequenced as part of the Archon X Prize.
Billionaire Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), and CNN talk show host Larry King are among those who have signed on to have their genes sequenced as part of the Archon X Prize.
Ever since Obamacare became law, this has been a source of grumbling among the congressional staffers I talk to.
Talk of brides being sold causes bristling among the Kalaidzhi, who represent a small proportion of Bulgaria's 700, 000 Roma.
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