My question is whether in this conversation there was any hope for advancing this beyond the publicly stated position of each side.

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But even when he interacts with Admiral Marcus in conversation at the beginning of the film, his question to Marcus asking for clarification about what line of inquiry Marcus would like him to follow prompted some titillation in the audience.

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Did the question of currencies come up specifically in the conversation?

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According to the unedited conversation, Mr Zimmerman was asked directly by the dispatcher whether the man in question was "white, black or Hispanic".

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Nevertheless, as educators in Chicago voted to strike and benefits such as tenure came under scrutiny, the question that study proposed sparked a national conversation and helped turn 2012 into a year in which teacher-bashing became a popular past time.

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We're going to take this conversation over the break, so if you have a question for General Keane about the situation in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq as we're, what, about seven weeks into the escalation of forces into Baghdad and to Anbar province as well.

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And so the question is, at what point can we have a serious conversation about Medicare and its long-term liability, or a serious question about -- a serious conversation about Social Security, or a serious conversation about budget and debt in which we're not simply trying to position ourselves politically.

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