Two blocks over, downtown's hotel scene emerged from the Jazz Age in 2006 when 21c Museum Hotel debuted its forward-thinking concept, nesting 90 lodgings atop the U.S.'s first museum devoted to 21st-century art.

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While the English case didn't bear specifically on his work, it got Mr. Ice thinking about the concept of ownership of a debt, he says.

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Some companies pointed out the need to start thinking beyond the proof of concept or pilot project strategy.

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As you take these small steps you might discover that the new concept you are thinking about already exists.

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The essence of China's thinking about cyber warfare is the concept of shi, he says, first introduced in Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" about 2, 500 years ago.

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Such thinking is the very antithesis of the concept of a "global" ban.

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Despite this emerging understanding, the growth concept is so deeply ingrained in our thinking that we will keep pushing economic growth as hard as we can, at whatever cost is required.

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That has brought the concept friends who are not normally persuaded by environmental thinking, as well as green enemies who will brook no compromise.

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Clear evidence of the innovative thinking on the part of the designers that has gone into this concept vehicle is provided by a number of distinctive features.

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The whole concept of a war czar is outside all organizational, administrative, strategic thinking that we do.

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