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...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...amounts of data. "More and more often," says Michael Schiff, vice president of Current Analysis, a business-intelligence firm based in Sterling, Va., "you see it becoming 'X'RM, where the relationship being managed could be with a customer or supplier or stockholder or, to go out on a limb here, terrorist...
...like what I see, until I see differently,” McHale says. “I’m going out a limb with them. It could be a house of cards, but there’s also amazing win-win potential...
Let’s just get it out of the way immediately: Harvard is not as good as Yale, and to claim otherwise would be hubris in the extreme. But since being a columnist is all about taking risks, I’m going to go out on a limb and try to illustrate that the rivalry is a lot closer than most people realize...
...Once limb replacement surgery became more standard, Malt “left it to the plastic surgeons,” she said. He was primarily interested in the fields of cancer and vascular surgery...