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Clients may at first be taken aback by consultants' youth, especially since the client knows more than the consultant about the industry. But they come to realize the consultant has many insights to add, says Paresh N. Shah at Monitor Company in Cambridge...
When the TF, somewhat taken aback, asked him why he was planning to do this, he looked sheepish and mumbled something about masochism. The other students in the room laughed, "Final clubs," one said...
When Tanner declares his love for Elaine, she protests, "but you're not human." Somewhat taken aback, the cyborg insists, "We can get past that...
...service path and discovered the glove. "My heart started pounding," Fuhrman told the court. "I realized what I had finally found" -- presumably the possible key to a double murder. The officer stressed that it was not something he had been looking for: "I was kind of taken aback by the whole event," he said. "We didn't go up there for this...
...Clinton to Inman, a Bush voter who didn't much feel like returning to Washington. "The President had to talk him into it," says a senior White House official. "It wasn't about defense or budgets. They just needed to get to know each other." The admiral was taken aback when the White House contacted him about the job two weeks ago. He agreed to take it only after he was satisfied that Clinton was personally committed to building a strong, forward-looking national-security policy with bipartisan support. Though impressed by Clinton, Inman still hesitated until his old friend...