But what those viewers are saying, how much they are they talking, how influential those conversations are, what else they care about none of this is going to be neatly wrapped up in a single metric.

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You know, David, I don't think any of us were under the illusion that, again, having been off the world stage for so long, in dealing with this issue and in understanding what it was going to take to get developing nations of the world at the table that all these issues might be neatly wrapped up by December of this year.

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For investors who want the TARP funds to be resolved like a TV sitcom or a neatly wrapped-up movie--think again, Singer adds.

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