At the middle-management level, a crippling contradiction tends to surface.

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On the surface, he appeared content with life in the middle of nowhere and was focused on the fight at the weekend.

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In coordinated groups, the animals first cornered and then herded a massive school of herring, blowing bubbles around them to confuse the fish and make them swim tighter, until, surging through the middle of the school with mouths agape, the humpbacks boiled to the surface in a feeding frenzy.

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Holding it naturally, that surface is interrupted only by the small Motorola logo inlay in the middle of the handset.

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According to the Middle Eastern official, the Saudi government has a plan to arm the rebels with surface-to-air missiles, and the Americans appear willing to sign off on the plan, but only if they receive assurances that the missiles will be tightly controlled.

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