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On the recordDecember 1, 2015
But we have to start getting very serious and have everyone understand what the distraction possibly costs us in terms of shortening the time to benefit for the overall transformation.
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Thom Tillis
Republican · North Carolina

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Tillis stresses the need to recognize the costs of distractions in achieving transformation.

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