Word: frayed
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Despite the demand for anticorrosion expertise, Schutt says the barriers to entering the field are rising because of clients' requirements for insurance, operator qualifications, strict quality control and a documented safety program. It's not surprising, then, that companies wanting to enter the fray see acquisition as a viable option. In early 2005, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), an independent Norwegian foundation that's a global provider of risk management, acquired CC Technologies (CCT), a corrosion-engineering company with a strong research division, based in Dublin, Ohio. With 2006 revenues of $20.6 million--a $10 million increase over its 2003 sales...
...Democrats aren’t obliged to tell both sides of the story, but what’s maddening is that the Democrats insist they are above the fray. After the Congressional elections, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) proclaimed that the Democrats would reign over the “most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.” Using the Senate floor to slur your political opponents isn’t exactly ethical...
...there arrived, a few weeks ago, an unnecessary film unnecessarily titled “Mr. Woodcock.”It’s a damn mess is what it is.A few weeks ago, a former associate professor from Harvard’s government department joined the fray, publishing a near 2000-word op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the state of liberal education at the College. “Our Compassless Colleges,” the piece by Peter Berkowitz was titled, and it proffered a solution to our woes.The conservative critique of liberal education...
Putting so much on the outcome of a single state is a big gamble, however, and there are plenty of Democrats who argue privately that the Illinois Senator is making a mistake by holding himself above the fray and praying for Clinton to slip. "He's got to go out there and take this from her," says a prominent strategist who is not affiliated with any candidate. "His is a subtle and nuanced campaign, and this is not a subtle and nuanced business." Going on the attack against Clinton, however, would undercut Obama's claim to be a different kind...
...atrocity, evoking emotion by bringing up the impressionable youth. Talking heads on radio and TV chest-bumped and high-fived each other, delighting their audiences with thundering hyperbole and really old—but still funny—prison jokes. Even serious news outlets like CNN jumped into the fray. The bloodthirsty public watched, and loved...