To get there, he must first convince people of the value of sharing -- a task he acknowledges as tricky.

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Second, sharing out a particular task among several machines would be reliable (you would not have all your eggs in one basket) and flexible.

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They spend long hours at the Shubert Theatre, sometimes sharing dinners and lunches, and running up and down stairs from one task to the next with a dozen other child actors.

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Their task force is the first time they've collaborated on a project since they began sharing office space in the 1990s.

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He got the support of a writer named Thomas Paine to take the message to the streets, sharing the vision with ten thousand people who volunteered to form short-term task forces that would join the campaign and then disband.

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Whoever succeeds him now faces the task of reassuring the Coptic community as the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood look on the verge of sharing power in Egypt for the first time, our correspondent says.

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Sharing cramped geographic quarters with Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Armenia is no easy task, yet Azeris in this Muslim-majority country enjoy one of the most pro-Western, liberalized societies in the region (consider that women gained the right to vote in pre-Soviet Azerbaijan in 1919, narrowly beating out the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment).

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