Craig was as messy a businessman as his father, but he compensated by hiring strong operational talent.
If it now confronts a messy war and a messy peace, it is largely because it resorted to force with such inadequate preparation.
The result is a messy masterpiece, a portrait of turbulent transition, that constantly risks falling on its face but almost never does.
Now, if you suspect that I have a messy desk, a packed pantry and a cluttered basement as well, you would be right.
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Yet a messy compromise at a company that is so lacking in direction and so badly in need of restructuring would be the worst possible outcome.
Architectural Digest has a photo of Pollaro, looking casually professional, and Pitt, looking a little like his stoner character Floyd from True Romance, sporting a messy ponytail, a (fancy) track suit type jacket, and some very heavy eyelids.
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Robert Kennedy's son Joe was derailed after a messy personal life involving a high-profile annulment, and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, has largely stayed out of the spotlight.
The trouble for Mr Cardoso is that in Brazil any devaluation would be a messy affair, risking a return to the psychology of inflation and so in practice, if not this time in law to the price indexation that made inflation so chronic.
Each spring they get into a messy fight trying to write a new one.
If a messy default is forced upon a euro-zone country, it might be tempted to reinvent its own currency.
"It was messy and a bit odd, " says Raymond Perrier, head of brand valuation at Interbrand.
The airline business began to get big and complicated and messy for a lot of reasons, not the least of which were deregulation and the high price of oil.
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He was bequeathed a messy party-funding scandal and a Tory opposition under new and (finally) competent management: David Cameron has stolen many of New Labour's ideas (see article).
But that marriage of convenience often comes with strings attached and, if you ever decide to part ways, be prepared for a messy and expensive "divorce" and a potential competitor.
When Brocious and I tested his hack at three New York hotels prior to his Black Hat presentation, his device was a messy two-piece contraption, with a circuit board wired to a separate battery pack, and it only worked on one of three rooms we tested.
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But my worry was that I wanted a clear win not a messy draw and if they presented it as a draw that was not good enough for us.
Fighting does not get any less messy just because somebody invents a less messy phrase.
The current process for manufacturing it is a rather messy one involving ergot, a parasite of rye.
That's a pretty messy compromise--albeit a necessary one.
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Politically, promising to solve a messy conflict with deep roots and few votes is a risky move.
Yet the danger is that the euro zone will end up with a messy system in which the ECB can cut off a bank while leaving national authorities to argue over the bill.
Mr. Tsarnaev's own car was a messy Honda Civic, but occasionally he would borrow a black BMW driven by the Kazakhs, said Ahmad Nassri, 20, who played indoor soccer with Mr. Tsarnaev every Monday in New Bedford.
Both predicting the future of work and designing for it (whether as a corporate HR executive, a coffee shop owner, a vendor of virtual-work technologies or an entrepreneur developing a co-working space) involves thinking about a messy and complicated bundle of ideas with at least a couple of dozen major dimensions.
The more restrictions they put on the bail-out, the more likely it will emerge as a messy fudge, lacking the wallop necessary to put the banks on a more stable footing.
On his 64th birthday this Sunday, Sir Paul will be in the middle of a messy divorce to model Heather Mills, and with the prospect of a very expensive settlement hanging over his head.
In doing so, Cary, a former Columbia Law School professor recently honored by the school at a day-long insider trading conference, replaced this messy system with a straightforward rule: anyone holding insider information must disclose it to the marketplace prior to buying or selling a stock or abstain from trading.
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The Left would rather you not know a basic fact of mortgage lending: The very last thing mortgage companies want is a messy foreclosure that sticks them with distressed properties which they must dispose of at a substantial loss.
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In recent years the British tabloids have gorged on his foibles: A public and messy divorce was followed by a colorful libel suit he filed against a former Italian manager (whom he had fired).
It was in danger of becoming a very messy evening for Villa as United added a fourth with 16 minutes left.
And JPMorgan ( JPM) is a big messy bank, carrying loads of risk and lacking a history of being any good at extracting industry-leading profits from its franchise.
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