"I would definitely say for the key players in the company, it had a very stimulating role, " replies Becht.

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We get useful information from the face when listening to someone, but human faces are very stimulating and all this takes processing.

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In the 20th century, some humans became very, very adept at stimulating me.

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The same people who became very good at manipulating me, also tended to be very good at stimulating some of the other parts of the limbic system, such as pleasure centers.

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And the Congressional Budget Office has found that tax cuts like these for American workers are more than three times more effective in stimulating recovery than tax breaks for the very wealthiest Americans.

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Tom Scott and Kate Brosnan surely pulled off something very special in creating The Nantucket Project, and considering their goal of stimulating thought and discussion, that was certainly achieved.

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To illustrate, in its statement after its December meeting, the Committee expressed the view that economic conditions are likely to warrant an unusually low federal funds rate for some time. 2 To the extent that such statements cause the public to lengthen the horizon over which they expect short-term rates to be held at very low levels, they will exert downward pressure on longer-term rates, stimulating aggregate demand.

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"If I could make the same kind of changes in stimulating the economy of the United States that I did in stimulating the economy of New York, then the United States would be in very, very good condition, " Giuliani tells Robert Siegel.

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