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combination of these two problems ... some
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combination of these two problems ... Thole
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Implicit in the opinions held by an audience of a
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proposal used referenced facts and the opinions of ex-
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people do not know the speaker, the audience does not
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for the failure of many scientific presentations. Another
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municate? Part ofthe problem was language; he often
intermixed German and English, neither of which was
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combination of these two problems caused many of the
students to complain to the head ofthe department. How-
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truth. The unexpected realization of truth then makes
people laugh. At the beginning of a presentation in which
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