Yet while we're much better prepared, SARS still scares us ... sometimes into silence.

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After all, it could be healthy for managers to be confronted with a map of their own communication islands and the embarrassingly large oceans of silence that sometimes separate them from their underlings.

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The results were sometimes worse than the silence.

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In his public appearances, Thomas is often asked about his silence, and sometimes he brings it up himself.

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Sometimes a wedge is simply silence.

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