Maybe the last mile problem really should be thought of as the last mile opportunity.

This is the last mile.

Well, not for the last 100 miles.

Diarrhea, and many last mile problems, are like that.

So, how do we tackle the last mile?

So, let me now talk about the last mile problem.

That's what I'm talking about as a last mile opportunity.

But you know what we do on the last mile?

The last mile is, everywhere, problematic.

How do you use your million to solve this last mile problem?

And that, to me, is the fundamental challenge of the last mile.

Now that last mile, last foot, in a sense, is the first step of the infrastructure.

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See what's really puzzling and frustrating about the last mile, to me, is that the first 999 miles are all about science.

And the inconsistencies create, fundamentally, this last mile problem.

And eventually, three miles later, we arrived at our destination, where a Jeep was supposed to meet us.

Nine hundred and ninety nine miles went well, the last mile's proving incredibly stubborn.

Here I have a bunch of other examples, all suffer from the last mile problem.

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I was lucky, the last few miles were enchanting.

You go about 15 miles past the gas station on Elm, then you turn right on Tompkin Street, you keep going right until you pass the railroad tracks, and then you turn left and go for about six miles.

You follow a mile behind them. Walking hurts their pride.

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The fastest woman to ever run a mile did it in 4 15.

Satawal is one half mile long by one mile wide.

But finally, there's a hotel there.

The last but four of the Mahicans.

The last time was in Madrid.

Worst ever, 13 miles in the wrong direction.

Well, maybe a mile, perhaps two.

So that's all water under the sea a mile and a half, two miles, three miles down.

So this is what you call a last mile problem.

They go from eight cents a mile in 2010, to four cents a mile in 2015, to two cents a mile by 2020.

These men were 10,000 miles from home, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest scrap of land.

They can't be 10 miles behind.

We're only just waiting for you.

It's the highest range in the state over 13,000 feet.

You take a horse on a hot day, and after about five or six miles, that horse has a choice.

First it's an inch in your view, then it's a quarter inch, then a half inch, and then finally they go off the edge of the earth.

Hundred miles?

The last sentence in the English version, in any event, was not clear or seemed far too elliptic.

Many of these deaths were completely preventable, and this what I want to think of as the disconcerting thing, what I want to call the last mile problem.

Only a mile.

And it is your last one, get that through your head right now.

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