We thought our job was to find the best broker, giving considerable, but not exclusive weight, to commission rates.
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And we thought our holiday snaps were precious.
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And here it was not even a few weeks ago when we thought our only hope to address crazy loud commercials was a new law and now Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has agreed on a measure that'll solve it with out Congress.
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"We didn't make a big issue about that, we thought we would bite our lips and get on with the game, " added Flower.
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"Following a winter of wind and heavy snow disrupting sporting fixtures and with spring in the air, we thought all our troubles were over, " says BBC Wales' head of sport, Geoff Williams.
We never thought our day could get any better after Huawei's Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu became available again for our CES stage interview (there was originally a "last minute urgent conflict"), but our man was also kind enough to share a couple more scoops with us.
It changed the way we all thought about our world of work and how we prepared for our adult work lives.
When forces beyond our control have upended what we thought we knew for sure (about our savings, our homes, our country, our future) and a drizzle of apprehension settles over us, we hunger for uplift.
In the interests of representing our members' views, we recently asked our members what they thought we should be asking for from the Government.
At first, we thought it was our analytics service.
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"People are saying 'we thought we bought our house in suburbia, or at least exurbia, and now someone is drilling an oil well here, " said Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission director Matt Lepore.
One of the things that I think both of us have learned in every one of these crises -- including in Libya -- is that it's very important for us to make sure that we have thought through all of our actions before we take those steps.
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It's been a long time since we've thought of our cordless landline phone as cutting-edge the last time we upgraded was to get a phone with a headset jack, hardly something at the forefront of technology.
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While we had the doctor at our disposal, we thought we'd ask how the exoskeleton manages such a blend of dexterity, agility and strength that it can both boot around soccer balls and lift 200 pounds with ease.
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When we pause to examine a thought bubble, we can use our brain to layer logic on top of the emotion.
For the first time we thought about who exactly our customers are.
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When I was COO at AbeBooks, a marketplace for used, rare and out-of-print books, we thought we could expand our site into new books.
The other four values stretch back in time to the earliest days of the company, 30 years before we ever thought about building our first hotel, to our popular Hot Shoppes restaurants.
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If you think about it, this is another way of saying that for ourselves we should give thought to our choices by putting first things first, and not letting second things become first things.
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"As we add the next wave of technology to our ultrafast network, we've listened to our customers and thought long and hard about the right way to do it, " said Three chief executive Dave Dyson.
Yet each day we carry our phones everywhere without even giving it much thought because we are willing to trade value and convenience for our privacy.
But when the situation proved to be much more taxing than we had originally thought, and possibly dangerous, we cut our trip by more than half.
We were shooting in the entrance of the park and we had to do a few takes and basically they thought our team was just paparazzi and we were shooting a famous family (entering the park).
And we just and since it directly relates to our office, we just thought it might be useful to straighten the record out.
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And we just -- and since it directly relates to our office, we just thought it might be useful to straighten the record out.
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"Our thought was, if we're wrong, it's our own money, " Huizenga says.
We gave them what we thought was some of the best of our product for each season, why we were excited by it, why we think that this is an optimistic expression of Gap.
Low single digits, annually, but during the past decade critically acclaimed contemporary work that many of us thought we were throwing away our money on has appreciated 1, 000 percent.
They said they had a few people on the list but they hadn't been able to match anybody up from a non-white ethnic group for the last two years, so we thought we would be wasting our money.
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