Word: clearers
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However uncertain the preceding circumstances, the facts of the assault are clearer: Just before the zoo's closing time, the 4-year-old tiger named Tatiana escaped her pen and attacked the older of the Dhaliwal brothers, then turned on and killed Sousa, who was apparently trying to save his friend by distracting the animal. She then made her way 300 yards to the zoo café, following a trail of blood left by the first injured man who had fled with his brother. It was there she attacked her third victim, the younger Dhaliwal, and was shot dead...
...argue that the war has nothing to do with municipal elections and thus the boxes should have been allowed, but that logic brings election officials into the dangerous practice of judging what messages are relevant to what elections. Eliminating political messages from polling places altogether sets a clearer standard that is less prone to selective censorship. Election officials made the right decision to protect the integrity of the election, and it is deeply unfortunate that it has been misconstrued as an attack on the American troops...
...Brink” as an abstract ballet, and the dancers’ performance was technically exquisite, with ensemble movement perfectly synchronized. The piece was by far the most energetic of the three, and “On the Brink” demonstrated a much clearer emotional journey than the preceding works. As the dance opened, the dancers reached upwards but seemed weighed down by their own bodies. By the end, however, they broke whatever bonds restrained them and literally gasped in relief. The final image was one of complete release: the dancers were centered on stage, arms outstretched, as petals...
...beginning, at about the turn of the last century, what management consultants offered was much clearer. It was called Taylorism, after its inventor, Frederick Winslow Taylor. Taylor called it scientific management, and it involved slicing up industrial processes into bite-size tasks and then doing detailed time-and-motion studies to determine the most efficient way to perform them. Described in hindsight as "the first big management fad," Taylorism was widely criticized--from the right as a step toward totalitarianism, from the left as soulless and alienating. It was famously parodied by Charlie Chaplin and Lucille Ball (remember Lucy...
...slid to 2.6 million bbl. a day this year, from 3.5 million six years ago, says John Olaisen, Oslo-based energy analyst at Carnegie, a Nordic investment bank. For Helge Lund, 44, formerly CEO of Statoil and now chief of the combined company, the message couldn't be clearer: "If we're going to grow the company," he says at StatoilHydro's office in Oslo, "we have to grow outside Norway...