Obviously, we can keep our fingers crossed and hope the runner has recovered from his injury, but there are problems with this thinking.

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Senator MIKE ENZI (Republican, Wyoming): It will definitely slow things down, and we'll just keep him in our prayers and hope for a speedy recovery.

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This seems like a lofty , claim given that touchscreens are known to hamper battery life anyway, but we're vowing to keep our expectations low and hope for the best.

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And I know that we will all continue to keep them in our prayers and hope for people to be able to get back to their lives as normal.

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And you're going to try to help us keep our subpoenas straight, I hope, Ari, because this one we've just been discussing is not the only subpoena at issue.

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As long as we can accept that possible commercialization is years away, there's hope that we eventually won't have to handle our technology with kid gloves to keep it looking pretty.

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