The strategy worked, Mr. Joiner says, because his personality "screams kitsch, " a fact that can easily be discerned from reading his blog, www.marketingheadhunter.com, about careers in marketing.

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The breakthrough here had to do with the fact that the mathematical key for unlocking a secret message cannot be discerned from the key that locked it up.

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The application not only provides instantaneous updates on data that can eventually be discerned from the games final box score, but also creates insights using a combination of player and situation statistics that would otherwise never be available from traditional real-time communication channels.

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The advance and retreat of the ice sheets can thus be discerned quite accurately from such sediment cores.

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An older cast to the pictures that win awards can be discerned over time, but young-skewing and hipper movies are often compensated in the screenplay category (from Pulp Fiction to Lost in Translation).

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