Unlike any other asset class in the world, this one can become a game changer when understood by individuals not only from a single, financial bottom line perspective but through a gut check in a deep, personal way.
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The summer of 2012 may be remembered as the turning point when we understood the urgency of the issue and began to take action to solve it.
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She repeated HP's claims to a US court, saying "there had been very serious strategic misrepresentations, accounting improprieties and when we understood what had happened we had to explain to our investors".
When properly understood, this is incredibly freeing and valuable.
Gee that was back when nobody understood how these new phenomena work, not even those researchers who had been observing them in laboratory setups (whenever they ran into luck) while so many others were hooting their disbelief and ridiculing those pioneers (in the kindest cases).
When we understood that the only options the USDA was open to embracing both included the planting of GMO alfalfa, we knew we had a responsibility to advocate for the most restrictive sets of regulations possible, and to have taken any other route at that juncture would have been a clear abdication of our responsibility to the our organic farmers and consumers.
Until then, they were fairly boring things, with most people understanding how they worked only because their neighborhood streetlights went on when they sensed darkness, smoke detectors sounded alarms and fire trucks beeped because motion sensors understood when they were backing up.
The pair were in the Chamonix area for a weekend hiking, when it is understood Charlie plummeted several hundred metres down a cliff.
She spoke a little English and when she finally understood she said they were welcome to come one at a time for a hot bath.
"There was never a time when governments or the public understood the implications of war even when they were fighting them, " he told me.
British psychologist Donald Winnicot understood this when he set his bar for good parenting.
President Clinton understood that when it came to elections it was "the economy, stupid!"
This anti-innovation provision stems from legislative action begun in the 1960s when few people fully understood the copyright legal system and its implications.
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And he understood that when he was running for President back in 2008 when there was a spike in the price of oil.
The fiscal cliff was a big moment, but there came a point when surely John Boehner understood that his public statements became counterproductive.
"The teen idol marketplace is really a two- to five-year window, " Gallo said, and that was understood back when The Monkees were at their peak.
Scientists will ask when something is not understood, hopefully.
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Senator DURBIN: Well, the interesting thing in the last few days, when the president finally understood the anger of the American people about his policies in Iraq, he started adopting the very premises and positions that we had on Iraq for so long.
When we formed this we understood that we had averted the worst possibilities of a Great Depression.
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Ronald Reagan, who, as I recall, is not accused of being a tax-and-spend socialist, understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control, that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases.
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Sinn Fein's Caitriona Ruane was on her feet talking about the massive impact of domestic abuse on victims, when the DUP MLA intervened, asking if Ms Ruane understood "the conflict of speaking about victims trauma when her party appointed a convicted criminal last week".
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When I was named, everyone understood I was behind the eight-ball in trying to get talented players immediately.
We look forward to the day when PBGC practices are more fully understood by the American public and subjected to the scrutiny they deserve.
That was built when no one was used or understood tall structures, but it showed what could be done and just as importantly stretched the imagination.
Similarly, failing to make a disclosure when there is fiduciary obligation to make a disclosure is something that can be clearly understood (although sometimes it is difficult to know when one has a fiduciary duty to another).
What everybody understood was there are times when government can make a huge difference.
It is understood the alarm was raised when the fire broke out in a turbine hall at the power station.
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