But there is little sign of things being done: the city's schools, health services, housing and public transport are all in a mess.
He was too awkward to be contained, all angles, a mess of elbows and knees, and deceptively strong.
Now, the banks are in hot water with regulators and face hundreds of civil suits--a fine mess all around.
Diaz, for some reason, is repeatedly drawn to self-consciously grotesque little projects that usually don't accomplish much of anything at all, but make a huge mess while not accomplishing it.
Irrational also gave reporters a preview session with the game as a way of assuaging fears that all these delays keep coming because the game is a mess.
That means more melting ice in the Arctic, dumping fresh water into the salty sea and making a mess of the all-important Gulf jet stream, which makes northern U.S. habitable.
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In all, the moves present a confusing mess.
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Some would say that Tiger Woods easily makes the lust for life cut, given his off-the-course antics, but despite his all-too-human mess of a personal life, his image is too highly constructed for anybody to discern a human being beneath it.
New TLDs however will be most risky of all, as they will be creating a confusing mess initially.
With Labour's finances in such a mess, Mr Brown may for all his tough talk have to make some concessions to the unions, even if it evokes uncomfortable memories of the 1970s.
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Dr Gwinn, however, likens this mess to a novel that has had all its pages torn out and reassembled in a different order.
There is 3D perspective, smooth animation, more complicated crafting and cooking systems, animals with personality, and a mess of other features borrowed and developed from all the games that Zynga has made since.
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Well, yes, because we just spent all that time, energy and money trying to clean up a big mess.
Anyway, the point is that when investors and companies lend to a bank and when they invest in them, they look at what would happen to that bank if all went pear-shaped and said bank got into a serious financial mess.
Howard Davies directs this tale of three generations of a dysfunctional family in their seaside, 1930s Art Deco house in Devon, reconstructed by designer Vicki Mortimer, in a way that tells you all you need to know: the mess is incredible though the real estate is obviously valuable, and the Che Guevara poster tags Judy's political views.
Roger Smith, with all his visions of robotic factories, failed completely, leaving behind a worse mess than he inherited.
Other quick notes: the screen has pretty dismal viewing angles and it's crazy glossy, the trackpad is textured (which we love), and we have no idea why Sony can't bother to at least properly align all the stickers on this thing -- it looks a bit of a mess.
Britain, again, has an answer: forgive the debts of all poor countries, including Bangladesh and Vietnam, not just those in such a mess they qualify for the current HIPC initiative.
"The parents who have jobs or are working every day and the young man who's going to school every day and lifting after or playing basketball and then going home and doing homework, all they know after seeing that story is, 'That's a mess down there, '" Golden said.
We all know about figures who attain greatness in public life but whose private lives are a mess, repellent, or both.
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We watch people, buildings, furniture, cars, toys, plants, all the living and material life of the resort get pulled into a swirling, tangled mess and randomly deposited for miles inland.
One worry is that the public finances are in a mess, which might undermine confidence among foreign investors who hold a third of all gilts.
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People, furniture, houses, cars, toys, flowers, all the living and material life of a fancy beach resort get pulled into a swirling, tangled mess and are randomly deposited miles inland.
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