It was his obvious position of weakness that I'd seen during lunch and it was this frailty that had spoken to my humanity, but it didn't last.

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Doesn't the series of opt outs it has negotiated make this position quite obvious?

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Market timing is for the birds, so while you constantly try to call the twists and turns, you only ever change your position if something obvious and awful appears on the horizon such as the credit crunch.

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"Voices can indeed be changed and the pitch, pace, tonality and voice pattern can be modified to exude power, control, and position someone as the obvious leader, " says Gloria Starr, an image and etiquette consultant.

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While it appears fairly obvious that none of the automata are in a position to make changes to rules a full order above them, most corporate re-orgs continue to be run by gliders and toads.

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Nowhere is this more risibly obvious than in the outrage expressed by European politicians over Bush's position on the Kyoto protocol on global warming.

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In soccer though, the economics are such that there is a very obvious class system, with a half dozen European superclubs in a perennially dominant position where they can cherry-pick talent from their closest rivals.

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