The ideas are never really taken into consideration or end up so mangled that they never result in the product, service, feature the customer believed he was helping to create.

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After Chile's 1-0 win over the Swiss earlier in the day they knew defeat would end their interest in the tournament, but that was never a realistic proposition as they dominated proceedings from the outset.

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What we as a country owed them was nights, at the end, when they never again had to feel that dread in the darkness.

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It is well established that financial services firms will never, ever collaborate at the proprietary end of the spectrum and they go to tremendous lengths to guard their intellectual property.

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In our history it is clear that never have they come cheap and often they have come late, but always, in the end, they come in flood, and always in the end, the decision is ours.

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This means that if you don't want the person on the other end to know you've read it, they never will.

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