But alas far too many marketers sit in their conference rooms and choose to ignore the large gray pachyderm sitting in the corner.

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Gray wolves hunt the large animals like elk that were eating so many plants that some of the fauna was in danger of disappearing.

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The company, Gray explains, runs large-format stores, such as those of Best Buy in the U.S. or Dixons in the U.K., and is taking market share away from smaller retailers.

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The bath in my room had a deep cast-iron tub and floors laid with large, pale-gray stone tiles that Kime reclaimed from an embassy in Alexandria a few years ago.

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Bending down to change back into his shoes, Wolfowitz removed a slipper, revealing a large hole in the toe of one gray wool sock.

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So he made that refuge in the studio Ms. Reid designed, a large room with visible steel beams and concrete gray floors.

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Though Kirshenbaum still occasionally buys on impulse--example: a large canvas perforated with holes, depicting a rabbit on a pink-and-gray background, by contemporary British artist Charming Baker--Glimcher remains his chief advisor.

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