And they are all very much in our thoughts and our prayers, and we have to keep thinking about them, okay?

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In looking for a solution, engineers are certainly thinking about how to keep to a minimum the amount of water they recover alongside the oil.

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McIlroy endured a slump last summer, missing four cuts in five events, which he broke out of only after deciding, on the range one day at the WGC Bridgestone in Ohio, to stop thinking about plane angles and positions and instead keep it simple.

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In thinking about Bush, I keep coming back to Ronald Reagan.

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"I just keep thinking about saving for the near future when I want to have a family, buy a house, " she said.

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It also got me thinking and obsessing about how important it is for women who take time off to keep a foot in the door.

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"Sometimes you start thinking about too many different things, and you've got to go back and keep it simple, " he added.

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