While the macroeconomic statistics suggest China has been relatively insulated from the global financial crisis by massive government spending and new loans from the state-owned banks, on the ground the picture is more mixed.
Even the most striking and most impressive findings may not be the whole story, and it takes painstaking, granular work close to the ground to fill in the whole picture.
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The figures you see in the press tend to be focused on the yield from the ground rather than thinking of the bigger picture.
It is able, from the delay between the broadcast of a pulse and its reception in different places, and the strengths of the echoes, to draw a three-dimensional picture of what lies under the ground.
The team you build around you will be your eyes and ears on the ground, but an entrepreneur must see the bigger picture.
If a train had gone over it the edges would have been ground down, but as you can see in the picture the edges are sharp.
With so many sights to see in Rome, the only real way to get a complete picture of this city is to hit the ground running, or in this case, walking.
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And yet, year in and year out, UN inspectors, who were on the ground throughout most of the period, failed to provide an accurate picture of those programs.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then walking out to the rough ground where the biomass is growing (between the stream and the good soil reserved for corn) will tell the story much better than anything I can say in a meeting.
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The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, which has forecast a much higher reduction in public sector jobs, said the picture painted by the OBR differed from reports it had received from "managers on the ground".
Researchers at IDC have had their ears to the ground keeping tabs on shipments for specific types of devices, and now they've painted a bigger picture of the hardware battlefield in 2012.
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