We had become far too parochial and insular and this was the result.
But this job had been assigned to me, and we had become friends, that employee and I, and I was unsettled at the prospect.
And part of it has to do with the fact that we had become the growth engine for the world based on accumulating debt and consumption.
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We had to become their best client partner for the collaboration to become successful.
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"I just graduated from high school and we had just become friends, " she says.
"We have all had to become ambassadors for our religion, we have had to condemn every terrorist attack or be labeled a supporter of terrorism, " she said.
We considered the possibility that one of his lines had become infected, so we put in new lines and sent the old ones to the lab for culturing.
According to our valuation methodology, we believed the stock had become simply too hot and the underlying fundamentals could not support such an inflated price level.
Once, when there was instability in faraway regions or countries, we had a choice - to become involved or not.
Instead he said people had "lost a sense of who we were and what we believed" - saying Labour had become associated with ID cards and defending bankers' bonuses.
"We've become a bit inure to this because we've had four cars in the garden in the last few years and in 2007 a lorry lost its load of beer into our garden, " said Mr Cobbin.
But the potential seemed great since executive headhunting only amounts to 1%-2% of all recruiting in Beijing and, "we had a feeling that Internet recruiting would become a new medium, " he says.
"We concluded that the monetary forces that were arising in the world globally had become so overwhelming, relative to the resources of central banks, that we had effectively lost control of long-term interest rates and the forces directing higher prices and homes, " he said.
"I think I had a feeling this might become some cool tradition, but I had no idea we would still be doing it for 30 years, " said Wardlaw.
"Of course we had no idea that Rio was going to become such a hotspot when this project originated, " Herzog said.
"I hadn't known what we would discover, and had thought maybe the story will be, what a tolerant and accepting country we have become, " said Mr Wallraff after a screening of the film Black on White in Berlin.
But the team had to become smaller to continue and together we produced a car that has been exceptional this season.
"When I read more about it and saw what a culture phenomenon it had become, I realized it was something we should take seriously, " Mr. Karp says.
The pain in our pivot came from having to re-calibrate our vision and change the expectations we had in the early days for what the company would become.
We often stood on the active flight line, in the middle of the Saudi Arabian Desert, exchanging stories and life experiences and agreed that when we returned home, we would find some way to engage struggling veterans that had become homeless or who had otherwise fallen down.
Sometimes we had to wait for the book we wanted to read to become available.
Over the past several decades we have poured considerable resources into fixing a water system that had become embarrassingly broken.
Ironically, 'units' become even harder to compute when we've had a drink, because the part of our brain that works that sort of thing out switches off.
If wood had not become scarce in Europe as a fuel we would never have dug for coal and developed the understanding which allows development of oil and gas reserves.
This past week we found out that 100, 000 commodities traders did not know what had become of their hard-earned money left in segregated customers accounts at MF Global, a commodities dealing house now bankrupt.
Facebook just had to be better than Friendster and Myspace to become the place we all go to post pictures of our vacations and kids.
Back in those days, while Paul and I had become competitors (he at Forbes, me at Fortune), we would help each other on complex Russia-related cases when we felt we could.
We can't afford -- no pun intended and for whatever many reasons -- to go back to a regulatory system that we had in place that led to the type of financial collapse that required the taxpayers to become involved.
"We have never, to our knowledge, had an incident at our show where a dog has become ill or was harmed as a result of being poisoned, " the kennel club said in a statement.
We've had an illegal system of immigration, if you will, that is now going to become a legal system.
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