Looking through a numerical spreadsheet takes a lot of mental effort, while information presented visually can be grasped within seconds.

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Because of him, men understood that both the immensely large and the infinitesimally small could be grasped by the mind and measured by arithmetic.

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But the issue of Special Branch's controversial merger with Crime Branch remained to be fully grasped, he said.

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This is tight, but it could be met if the opportunity were grasped.

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Leadership in many organizations have still not grasped how pervasive change needs to be.

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Greater Manchester Police Federation's Ian Hanson said the decision showed Mr Lloyd "grasped the realities of what it is like to be a police officer".

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The leadership at Salesforce.com grasped this difference and saw that if a radically different approach to management were to be introduced in one part of the organization, there would be a tension at the interface between the part of the company still doing traditional management and the part managing work in the new way.

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In a startling documentary broadcast by the BBC last night (The Great Euro Crash), former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder set out how Germany had grasped the nettle of global competition and won concessions from labor unions that allowed Germany to be competitive, particularly against the Chinese.

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The danger is that, however unfairly, Mr Buffett and Mr Gates will come to be seen as the sort of philanthropists whose giving with the left hand is tainted by how the wealth was grasped with the right hand.

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