• Maybe we need to learn to adopt a dose of old-fashioned conservatism, which means conserving what is good and what must last, and accepting and dealing with stern realities rather than denying and running from them.

    FORBES: After Sandy in Manhattan: Now Comes the Hard Part

  • Well, half of this money was raised on the Internet, which means that what he did was to go Howard Dean one better and create - and even perfect, I think - this technique of raising these large sums of money.

    NPR: The 2008 Candidates and the Money Game

  • To lose weight, governments have to do two things: learn how to do more with less, which means modernising the state, and cut back on what they offer, which among other things means tackling the social transfers.

    ECONOMIST: The ever-growing state

  • Although quasars are light days across, they are billions of light years from Earth, which means that most of what scientists know about them comes from extrapolations and not direct evidence.

    FORBES: Hubble Telescope Observes Matter Falling Into Black Hole

  • If a company can expand its output to meet the market demands simply by internal efficiency improvements (which is what productivity means to some extent), why should they go out and hire more labor?

    FORBES: It's The Productivity, Stupid

  • The subject of our session is emerging sustainability standards, which are defining what sustainability means in every industry, business and product class.

    FORBES: Sustainability Standards and Sustainability Creep

  • Another explanation is surely the slow pace of job growth, which means fewer opportunities to entice what economists call the "marginal" worker back into the labor force.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Vanishing Workers

  • Increased savings means increased investment, which is what creates new jobs and provides workers with the tools to be more productive.

    FORBES: The Fiscal Cliff and America's Coming Recession

  • Or more specifically, from a branding perspective, Hollywood's biggest entertainment companies appear to have lost sight of what it means to create a great brand, which is, after all, what great movies are.

    FORBES

  • "This is piecemeal change, dreamt up by politicians, which means no-one is quite sure what will happen next, " she said.

    BBC: A-level students facing shake-up

  • But they have yet to specify what that means, which powers they propose to repatriate from Brussels and how they would go about it.

    ECONOMIST: David Cameron

  • Directly and indirectly, individuals control two-thirds of the market, which means that muni bond prices move in what amounts to a retail echo chamber.

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  • Fans love it though, and especially love talking about it, which means they have plenty of control over what goes viral and becomes iconic.

    FORBES: VMAs: How MTV Will Unleash Big Data To Entertain Us

  • Palm wants to bring its WebOS operating system to other U.S. carriers, which means Sprint has a limited monopoly on what makes the Pre special.

    WSJ: Palm's Pre Sells Briskly at Launch

  • Papers should concentrate on what they do best, which means, in many cases, local news and sport.

    ECONOMIST: American newspapers

  • Instead, I think our social norm should be one which establishes a higher bar of what it means to be informed.

    FORBES: Sometimes Not Voting is the Most Virtuous Choice

  • David Sanborn was Bowie's main musical foil which means his saxophone playing dominates this excursion into what Bowie called "plastic soul".

    BBC: David Bowie

  • In fact, 59.7% indicated purchases will be influenced directly by what coupons they have, which means everyone is still looking for the best deals they can get.

    FORBES: 55% of Female Consumers Indicate a Tighter 2012 Holiday Shopping Budget

  • There are differences here about what this even meant, which means we've got to go back and do the work of once again rebuilding the story and the narrative so that we're telling the right story about what happened and it's not lost on good-hearted American citizens who want to help.

    NPR: Study on Race and Rebuilding New Orleans

  • The alternative is to do away with MLR requirements of Obamacare and allow the health insurers to continue to spend less and less on customer care to protect their profits, which means more and more disagreement with physicians over what the insurers are willing to cover and what they are not willing to pay for, leaving the consumer caught in the middle.

    FORBES: Time to bring back the public option?

  • " He referred to what he called "alarming" statements made by House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Archer, which, he said, refute "most of what we thought was going to happen in the tax bill.

    CNN: AllPolitics - Gephardt Accuses Republicans Of Trying To Rush Budget Process

  • Imagery has been impeded by some bad weather which also means there is less than perfect knowledge about what is happening on the ground.

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  • Aquafina is reverse-osmosis filtered, which means that it isn't much different from what comes out of your tap, with the exception it hasn't gone through municipal pipes.

    FORBES: Water World

  • Philosophers at the Humboldt University of Berlin, meanwhile, are exploring the various ways in which robotic technologies challenge the notion of what it means to be human.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • What are ways and means through which UNESCO and UN partner institutions can strengthen and support national research agendas for the UNDESD, and propose innovative partnerships or mechanisms through public-private funding for sustainability?

    UNESCO: Petits ?tats insulaires en d��veloppement

  • The new law meant an influx of fresh money buying oil futures as a financial investment rather than as a means of locking in future prices (which is what actual users of oil had been doing).

    FORBES: Why Gas Prices Are Rising . . . Again!

  • The third group of symptoms relates to what has been called hyperarousal, which means an emotional, mental and physical tendency to drive one's flight-or-flight nervous system too hard, a classic sign of which is a tendency to startle too easily.

    CNN: Can schoolyard bullying lead to PTSD?

  • What if it's unsliced, which means it can be cut wafer-thin or doorstop thick?

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  • For Microsoft, which packages its software with Windows, it means domination of what little of the universe it doesn't already control.

    FORBES: Streaming meemies

  • NASA, which is that people disagree about what the vision really means.

    ECONOMIST: Spaceflight

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