The power devolved to councils and the presence of councillors willing to talk out means much more uncomfortable information tends to leak out of the system.
So for all the talk out there about deficit reduction, making sure our books are balanced, this is the guy who did it -- three times.
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Then they had the couples talk it out together, filming them while they did.
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They try to talk themselves out of problems, real or imagined, invariably with the opposite result.
One person even tried to talk Martinez out of his plans, according to the Justice Department.
And did anyone try to talk them out of what they were going to say?
If the dealing gets him into a bind, Gingrich thinks he can talk himself out of it.
In my view, it's always more productive and mutually beneficial to talk things out and not fight things out.
Do you talk yourself out of pursuing new possibilities by focusing on all the things that could go wrong?
Talk it out: You're not always going to be able to control what your kid sees at a friend's house.
In fact, taking a negative tack is a surefire way to talk yourself out of friends, an employer and even a career.
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"If they reflect on their behavior, and they read about the experience of others, many kids will talk themselves out of it, " he said.
Though peers and his four sons tried to talk him out of it, Lin opened spacious eateries in both downtown Jeddah and in Riyadh.
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd had to talk himself out of trouble after airport officials flagged up a suspicious liquid in his cabin baggage - a jar of Vegemite.
Schmidt realized this company loves to talk it out, jettisoning hierarchy, business silos and layers of management for a flatter, "networked" structure where the guy with the best data wins.
North Carolina coach Roy Williams said in his 2009 memoir "Hard Work" that he tried to talk himself out of crying years earlier when he was the University of Kansas coach.
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And here was Doyne, who had just traveled halfway around the world, with only the basics of her talk sketched out, about to follow Jon Bon Jovi on the stage.
Mr Cairns played a prominent role in the Glasgow East by-election which Labour lost to the SNP and was close to Scottish Secretary Des Browne, who, the BBC understands, had tried to talk him out of resigning.
Force a vote on each nominee, and then dare his foes, some of whom face tough elections in conservative states next year, to talk them out as Thurmond tried (and failed) to do in 1957.
"For all the talk coming out of Cisco about adding Old World technology to their Internet products, it's really up to companies like Lucent and Nortel, who actually have experience in the old telecom world, to make it happen, " says Hilary Mine of Probe Research.
Ms. BIONDOLILLO: The problem is you used to be able to go out and talk to neighbors to find out if they knew if somebody moved, if they left an area.
Finally, we were kind of escorted out of the area, we managed to talk our way out, got back to the main city, Yangon, and we decided it was time for me to leave.
You may have noticed that I talk about considering out of the money spreads.
If they tried to talk their way out of paying, his father would raise his voice.
But we also have a tendency to talk these issues out at an abstract level.
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It should be interesting to see him try to talk his way out of this one.
At Fosters, the head of public relations, Troy Hey, also dismissed talk of getting out.
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