"I completely accept nobody can say with certainty what the future for Afghanistan will be, but what I can say is that the future of Afghanistan will have to be determined by the Afghan people, " Mr Hammond said.
And nowadays people live more in a kind of waiting situation, not really knowing what will be next and what will be the next future.
But the real story here is about what the young future leaders will be talking about after the spotlight that accompanies a former president fades away: the role of global business in health care, sustainable food production, ethical business and international cooperation.
No matter what, the future workplace will be more consumer-like, less stringently controlled, and more open to employee acquired technology.
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Given the history of the risk premium, what will the future reward for equity investors be?
The riddle of what New Orleans will look like in the future may be a little closer to a solution.
But I would venture to speculate that the Splunk IPO (April 2012, one month before the Facebook IPO) is what will be viewed in the future as the defining moment, the launch of the big data era.
What future is in store for those who will be 20 years old in 2062 and what will it mean to be young in the future?
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Since no one can predict what the best-performing asset class will be in the future, diversification increases the odds of being in the right asset class at the right time.
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What will be important for them in the future if they want to be successful is finding a cost-effective, streamlined way to build interesting, dynamic and high-quality ebook apps.
But we are also in negotiations and discussions with the Iraqis about what their security needs are and will be in the future.
Besides wondering what to expect in the way of future prices, participants will be looking for guidance on what this might mean for physical demand, as well as the outlook for industrial demand, especially for the more industrial precious metals such as silver, platinum and palladium.
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The more you can predict what you will spend vs. what you can cut out, the more secure your financial future will be.
In the not so distant future, the market will be as concerned about what Chinese consumers are buying as they currently are with Americans.
Since the new Correa-backed constitution has weakened the institutions of government and placed greater control and power in the hands of the executive, it remains to be seen what steps Correa will take in the future.
Further, it is unclear, as a result of arcane actuarial conventions discussed by others at the City Council session, what, if any, costs will be reduced over the foreseeable future by the proposal.
The question of who gets paid what, and how, feeds back into the main issue in these and inevitable future talks: to what extent will obligations under the Kyoto protocol be extended beyond the developed countries to developing ones?
Although he is not sure his tweeting tipped off the burglars, he says he will be more careful in the future about what he shares online.
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For these youngsters, the future will never be what it seemed certain to be during the times of constant economic growth.
This component, with extremely short cycle times in an industrially oriented manufacturing process, already demonstrates what will be possible in the future.
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For conventional companies, archives are an expensive problem: they need curating, maintenance, storage space, and no-one can ever judge what will be significant in the future.
Over the past few years Congress has engaged in a type of budgeting in which legislators simply pass temporary, quick fixes each year, leaving agencies in limbo about what their status will be in the near future and preventing policymakers from really engaging in deliberations about how the resources of government could best be used.
Profits for the past 12 months may or may not be characteristically representative of what will occur in the future.
Moreover, on our present course, that is what Social Security will be for everyone in the future.
This question goes to the heart of what Europe's economic future will be.
In the summer, the team will recommend what should be done to protect the battlefield and preserve it for future generations.
The best we have is that sometime in the future some political issue could arise and it will be important to know what the capital of Slovenia is.
Political pressures within Iraq are widely seen as the reason for al-Maliki's demand which comes as the U.S. and Iraq are negotiating what the future U.S. presence in Iraq will be.
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