We have gathered no for the sake of elections, but for the sake of a common task.

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"After the same characters emerge playing the same roles in several different cases, an investigator has to determine whether there is a common theme, and the task force now knows enough to do that, " an official told The Washington Post.

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With Iraqi leaders propounding opposing visions of their ideal state, the UN's task of finding common ground looks Herculean.

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The task before us is to find smart, common-sense solutions to each of these challenges that we can move forward on.

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Trying to implement a common monetary policy for the euro zone was always a tough task.

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Rather, their task is to determine the risks imposed on the system as a whole if common exposures significantly increase the correlation of returns across institutions.

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The task force began its work with a meeting of the full membership to develop a common understanding of the law, project goals, scope, roles and responsibilities, resource requirements, strategy, timeline, and deliverables.

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Finding out just how common exoplanets are particularly the rocky, Earth-like sort will be the task of two space-based telescopes to be launched within the next couple of years.

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We think that completing the funding for fiscal year 2011, a fiscal year that's nearly half over, should be a relatively easy task, and that the differences that separate us are not so great that we cannot find the common ground in a way that each side can feel that it accomplished something in getting it done.

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