If they decide to join in, they will complete a pretty picture indeed.
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Honest discussion of each question does not lead to a pretty picture.
Granderson is generally aware that the statistics don't paint a pretty picture of his defense, and that he isn't quite sure what he used to be.
Not at all a pretty picture of family bliss.
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The other part that's always tricky is the creative control because it's not in a brand's nature to relinquish control--they're used to making commercials, which are very controlled and highly manipulated 30-second spots that paint a pretty picture of their brand.
It is not a pretty picture, and while Dick Schulze may have once been a visionary, the specter of failed retailers such as Circuit City and Comp USA, as well as the current struggles of Radio Shack and Game Stop, makes one wonder whether any consumer electronics retailer will ever recapture the glory days of growth and lofty multiples.
"That just gives an added uncertainty to what is already a pretty bearish picture, " said McFarlane.
It all adds up to a pretty grim picture, but not everyone is pessimistic.
"It was a pretty bleak picture, " recalls 42-year-old Chopp, who was thrust into the chief executive's job in the midst of the crisis.
We combine that with a couple of other sensor technologies to get a pretty comprehensive picture of what these guys are doing, what they're capable of.
Banks have been reluctant to respond, but yet there have been enough mortgages modified to give a pretty clear picture that it is not a long-term cure, only a short-term band-aid.
This smattering of results paints a pretty clear picture.
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Looked at broadly, the e-mails seem to show a pretty workaday picture of scientists, with frustrations and sloppinesses, disagreements, opponents badmouthed, and cultural differences bridged (for example, explaining to an American colleague not just why a particular person is a prat, but what a prat is in the first place).
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During the same meeting, Fed economist Dave Stockton, speaking for the staff, said the forecasts sketched a "pretty benign picture" of the economy.
Looming on the horizon, the bridge adds an impressive dimension to Mumbai's skyline but environmentalists claim that lurking below is a not so pretty picture.
For a Beta right out of the door, Steam's Big Picture mode is a pretty smooth experience.
If so, it must be harder to get away with it all in the digital age when someone can Google a picture of you pretty easily.
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Even so, this pretty bauble of a picture -- which looks like it was filmed in a giant snow globe - scrapes together enough invention, exuberance and goofiness to skate over this blatant misstep, and Roberts herself is so willing to give it the old college try you wind up rooting for her regardless.
"What I saw in that picture was a very pretty girl, " he tells me.
Yet it seems that from even a little distance, the picture is pretty easy to discern: the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton is as interesting to Americans as is Major League Soccer.
According to the company, when you capture all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space, you can do some pretty cool things like focusing a picture after you take it and creating interactive, living pictures.
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Pretty soon the numbers began to portray a picture that turned the puffy white cloud to gray and foreboding.
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