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When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
They leveled that playing field and decided the anatomy that mattered was the commonality of anatomy, not the difference in anatomy, and that was a really radical thing to do.
You need to understand that in those places what really mattered was, firstly, the role of Tudman and Milosevic in coming to the agreement, and then the fact those men went, that the regional situation improved, that the European Union could offer Bosnia something extraordinary: the chance to be part of a new thing, a new club, a chance to join something bigger.
We know that's wrong, because we conducted two great natural experiments in the 20th century to see if geography mattered more than institutions.
As these conversations established common ground, especially across generations, I realized I was opening a space for people to talk about things that really mattered to them.
But to her, it mattered deeply.
What mattered was that it was there at all.
I would go to church services on Wednesday evenings and, desperate for the relief the arts gave me, I would go a few hours early, slip downstairs and into a part of the world where the only thing that mattered was whether or not I could hit the right note in the song I was perfecting that week.
I set out to write a compelling economic story, one that had great characters, that no one else was telling, and one that I thought mattered.
She grew up at a time when Confucianism was the social norm and the local mandarin was the person who mattered.
That moment mattered to Tim and Katie, and this green goo may someday matter to you.
It mattered to me.
We know this because when the Bronx Freedom Fund pays bail, 96 percent of clients return for every court appearance, laying waste to the myth that it's money that mattered.
This was an organization that had lost trust with every constituent that mattered.
And for the first time, Africa mattered more to me than ever before.
You conclude, actually, that none of these things have mattered very much.
And what we found, to many people's surprise, was that those LinkedIn résumés were more honest on the things that mattered to employers, like your responsibilities or your skills at your previous job.
What mattered to her was not the ocean that divided her past and new world; it was about finding common ground.
And pretty soon, armor and castles were obsolete, and it mattered less who you brought to the battlefield versus how many people you brought to the battlefield.
We didn't even know who was in our criminal justice system, we didn't have any data about the things that mattered, and we didn't share data or use analytics or tools to help us make better decisions and to reduce crime.
And with those 1.5 million cases, which is the largest data set on pretrial in the United States today, we were able to basically find that there were 900-plus risk factors that we could look at to try to figure out what mattered most.
And we found that there were nine specific things that mattered all across the country and that were the most highly predictive of risk.
What I didn't realize at the time, however, was that I had become an activist, I could change something, that even as a kid, or maybe even especially as a kid, my voice mattered, and your voice matters too.
But it was how Bob announced the program that mattered so much.
I realized the things that I enjoyed about this school and the thing that I enjoyed about the structure was something that I'd never found before: the fact that I finally felt like I was part of something bigger, part of a team, and it actually mattered to people that I was there, the fact that leadership wasn't just a punchline there, but that it was a real, actually core part of the entire experience.
But what he found was, these categories mattered, so when he later gave the subjects money, they would prefer to give the money to members of their own group than members of the other group.
It wasn't just about learning the material; it was about learning how to overcome my limits when it mattered most.
Three, I realized for the first time that my voice mattered.
But more importantly, it was that we put in place a system that allowed us to routinely ask questions to Veronica and hundreds more like her about the conditions that mattered in her community, about where health, and unfortunately sometimes illness, do begin in places like South L.A.
Gender didn't matter, and race most certainly never mattered.
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