After being driven through the streets of broken glass and police lines, he ascended to a suite on an upper floor at the Westin Hotel and flipped on local news, where he saw for the first time the scenes of chaos that had raged all around his hotel earlier that day.
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While the 201st anniversary probably will not see the record setting crowds that overran Munich latest year and for the first time in recent history brought a sense of chaos to the normally clockwork event, Oktoberfest has been generally trending upwards and is more popular than ever.
The rest of the time, he explained, a person in such a state is inwardly dealing with an invisible roiling chaos, unaware of what's going on around him.
Nick Pollard's review found the BBC's management system had "proved completely incapable of dealing" with the issue and "the level of chaos and confusion was even greater than was apparent at the time".
In addition to the immediate damage done to aircraft and airport installations, it will take Sri Lanka a long time to erase the image of violence and chaos from the minds of potential tourists.
In a comedy of manners set amid the chaos of modern Beijing, the characters have a hard time just keeping their heads.
The worst part of this is that fighting the battle to keep things from slipping into chaos leaves no time for technologists to exhibit the leadership in applying new technology to help implement strategy.
But for now-perhaps it is time to open your mind to the positive benefits of the chaos the current media environment provides.
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Last year, the government ordered a time change, then reversed itself a couple of days later, causing chaos.
Compare this to the chaos of streets, buildings and populations that large cities that have evolved over time.
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Time, first and foremost, is required to overcome the chaos inevitably arising from the disintegration of an empire suffering from a fatal disease.
They are charms against chaos, secret mantras for dark times, strings that vibrate forever in defiance of the laws of time and space.
Nanex, which sends its clients compressed real-time quote feeds and market data, has drawn attention lately for some of the underlying quote patterns it uncovered within the chaos of trading on May 6.
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