For now, though, they are all talk.

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He can point to other urgent needs, claiming some success against drugs and at least honest attempts, though many doubt they will succeed, to talk peace with Colombia's guerrillas.

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Umbilical connections to the Ariane allow engineers to talk to the spacecraft even though they are closed inside the top of the rocket.

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Mr Jones said there were places where children talk to each other in English, even though they are taught in Welsh and speak Welsh to their parents.

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Mr Stanakzai also denied that President Karzai was an obstacle to peace talks, though the Taliban have said in the past that they won't talk in earnest until he steps down and Western forces leave Afghanistan.

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"They are a great club and I agreed to talk to them even though I had a good job at Dundalk, " said Brown.

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They did talk about Afghanistan and did not focus on those particular incidents, though.

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Though these are caricatures, everyone has some such picture of the family and society in mind when they talk about family decline and the loss of innocence.

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Not once did I hear talk of the importance of newspapers driving people into shops, though you have to assume they remain one of the main ways of drawing people in regularly.

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