Anyway, what is the meaning of an overall figure that makes no distinction between a dope-smoking student, a recidivist rapist and a financial trickster (white-collar crimes increased by almost 4%)?
The personal questionnaires ask simple questions like what are you doing right now, who are you with, what is the meaning of this experience to you, and does it make you happy.
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What is the meaning of my life now?
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"The basic idea of a hyperinstrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's being played literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is, " Machover says.
And it is not too legalistic to point out that a president of the United States should not be convicted of perjury and removed from office over an argument -- a dispute about what is and what is not the commonly accepted meaning of words in his testimony.
And so he says that whether Mr. Bennett's statement is false depends upon what the meaning of "is" is.
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But he says that the original meaning of the constitution is not what its authors expected the language they used in the document to do solely during their lifetime, but what they meant it to say.
According to Gruber, that's just one step below "design verification test, " which is what that stolen iPhone 4 prototype was -- meaning the CDMA iPhone is apparently just two hops away from production.
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What the Gen Yers don't see, she says, is the meaning and value of gestures and other non-verbal skills that don't come through in a text message.
As Plato said, it depends on what the meaning of the word is is.
What if the true meaning of Rome is not justice but injustice, not civilization but institutionalized barbarism?
While the exact meaning of that statement is unclear, an indication of what the general - and his boss, the Commander-in-Chief - have in mind might have been the subject of a report in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
What may pass for meaning in the spot paintings is the sum of their associations in the history of abstraction.
We've seen many banks cut back on what they call wholesale lending, meaning the bank is funding mortgages that mortgage brokers are actually taking the paperwork for.
Refiners are now crashing into what is called a "blend wall, " meaning the feds have forced them to purchase more ethanol than they can safely put in their gasoline.
People often use language without thinking about the literal meaning of what they are saying and without considering what the person on the receiving end is thinking.
What's more, the VR3 is engineered to multitask, meaning you can work on a spreadsheet while that e-mail is downloading.
Everyone is focused on what the FED plans to do with interest rates, meaning the FED FUNDS rate.
One can overstate the meaning of this but what seems notable to me is that, in contrast to the stagnation-era Soviet Union, the 2012 Russian Federation has health trends that, while still pretty bad, are mostly getting better: mortality is high but decreasing, the prevalence of many important diseases is high but decreasing, fertility is somewhat low but increasing, and population decline is decelerating rather than accelerating.
Unless you employ what is known as "basic strategy" (meaning that you make the best move in every situation), the house will get the better of you the longer you play.
"Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is" is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe.
In the case of Cerberus, it has been reported that its chief executive has relatives in Newtown, meaning that the corporate boss has tied his business to what is now happening in that community.
The painful truth is that however we rationalize this sort of behavior, our Shariah-adherent enemies correctly perceive it as evidence of submission, which is the literal meaning of the word "Islam, " and what Shariah demands of everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
But the opportunity cost, meaning what you give up for being safe, is too high for an equity investor who in that case might do better in bonds.
If I could have thought through the meaning of the moment in so many words, this is probably what I would have been thinking.
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