"Imagine driving a convertible car with a fireman standing on the bonnet and a hose pointed at your face -- that's what it's like on deck, " said Alex Thomson, one of Britain's top yachtsmen.

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The bass has fantastic oomph and the audio plenty of clarity and depth when you're holding the Jambox in your hand, pointed at your face, but it won't fill a large party room (or function terribly well outdoors, as we learned camping out for Black Friday) and still sound like something worth listening to -- and the close-set speakers don't provide much stereo separation to speak of, either.

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The survey also pointed out that network managers face challenges when introducing employees to new software applications and advances in communication technology.

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While in community college, a driver who accused him of cutting him off pointed a gun in his face, threatened to shoot him, and then drove away.

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In his 1997 study of disruptive versus sustaining technologies, Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School pointed to the dilemma that all industrial leaders face.

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As the New York Times pointed out in this carefully researched piece last summer, unemployed people face discrimination from employers who prefer to hire people who are working or who have just recently been laid off.

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She had long, thin limbs and a small, very concentrated face whose severe features were drawn dramatically forward, culminating in a sharply pointed nose.

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In the face of mounting criticism of Wales on-going run of poor results, Gatland has pointed to the close nature of defeats to New Zealand, South Africa and Australia as well as being a converted try of levelling with England at the Millennium Stadium in the latest 26-19 setback.

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