"In some senses, it is exactly what you should be basing it on over time, because we're not meteorologists and apart from the things we get told, the things going on around us are going to provide more of a steer, " he added.
"The good thing is, we're not poles apart in brand imagery and there's no overlap between our vehicles, " points out Pawan Goenka, the ex-GM executive who heads Mahindra's auto and farm-equipment business and now chairs SsangYong.
"The perception is one that exists and that we're not going to change apart from with hard work, good success and the kids putting their minds to the training, " Bates told BBC Sport.
"Apart from that we're having a good Christmas, " she said.
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What we're watching: We'll check out Jack Bauer back in 1987, when he was tearing apart the throats of teens instead of terrorists in The Lost Boys.
Even though our two apartments are just eight blocks apart, Tod and I always feel like we're traveling between two exciting spaces.
And we've put in place a very comprehensive study over the course of five years -we're about a year into it - to really try to pull this apart.
We're not sure that Vulcans would endorse this kind of mind meld, though: apart from immediately depriving the decoder rat of self-control, prolonged testing led to the same rodent developing additional sympathetic reactions to the encoder.
We're going to be looking to you to heal the divisions that too often keep us apart.
"We're allowed to use vendor tools, or tools to be able to integrate with, take apart, change, edit or customize software, " said the senior executive.
We're rectifying it to reintroduce the system that existed back in 1999, which I think most parties apart from the Labour party thought was fair and which importantly, respected political commentators thought was fair.
"What we're doing here in this immigration battle is testing our willingness to hold together as a nation or split apart into a lot of Balkanized pieces, " he said.
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