"The Fighter" was about family ties that turn toxic, and "Silver Linings Playbook" gives us a family lurching crabwise through chaos toward redemption.
Eighty-one year old Abman Bishear(ph) has lived through Saddam's dictatorship and through the chaos that followed his fall.
However, if you do manage to maintain focus through the chaos, it gives you a chance to stand out, Morgan says.
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The two met wandering as displaced persons through the chaos of postwar Mitteleuropa, where they were picked up by the Jewish Brigade.
He waded through the chaos by joining a team of street medics, community activists and volunteers providing care to whoever came, whenever they needed it.
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At the time many observers, including The Economist, accepted that there might be a case for helping the country through its chaos with a new loan, even if the plan had only a fighting chance of success.
During the storm and the days that followed, Scott worked 14-hour days in near darkness, worked through heat and chaos and uncertainty.
In much the same way that Lebanon's drivers will find a way through the seeming chaos, he says, so will the local entrepreneurs.
The basic idea behind Dover Street Market was believing that by gathering various kinds of creation together, and giving free reign, the "fashion of now" would become chaotic, and within that chaos, through synergy and accident, each brand would shine more brightly and with a different power than when all alone.
If you want to see what happens to a society that goes through multiple episodes of currency chaos, look to Latin America.
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Critics said the plan was "poorly thought through" and would "cause chaos" in the area.
Faulty components on power lines are being blamed for bringing chaos to rail travel through Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire over the last fortnight.
Amidst this chaos, how do you break through the clutter and draw the right people to you?
Like the ancient philosophers or medieval mystics, we long to perceive the secret and idiosyncratic pattern within chaos, the singular currents running through the tumultuous sea.
Recently paradoxical thinking has trickled from science into business through buzz phrases like creative destruction, controlled chaos, coopetition, getting outside the box, fuzzy logic, breaking the frame, and the Zen of business.
During the early part of 1998, as Russia staggered through falling commodity prices, fiscal problems and political chaos, Carlson had largely stayed away.
The IBM Executive School became an exercise in educational mayhem and controlled chaos where the bulk of the learning came through the osmosis of peer to peer interaction.
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Dakota and the others who had joined him knelt down, picked up their comrades and -- through all those bullets, all the smoke, all the chaos -- carried them out, one by one.
They are the elements of law through which mercy is mixed with justice to bring forth, not chaos, but higher justice in accordance with a higher law.
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The Indian capital, Delhi, has shivered through its coldest day for 44 years, with dense fog causing travel chaos.
President NICOLAS SARKOZY (France): (Through Translator) When financial institutions have lost all credibility, markets are in chaos and panic reigns, people look to public institutions for a solution.
Then in the 1990s it overreached, descended into boardroom chaos and came close to collapse as the business landscape around it went through profound changes.
As long as the U.S. economy keeps muddling through and the European Central Bank keeps the continent from falling into debt-induced chaos, the differences among central bankers could drive short-term market results.
The stone cages would have held the tigers, lions and other exotic animals that were hoisted in wooden elevators through 80 vertical tunnels up to the arena. 2000 years ago, it must have been chaos down here with the gladiators, animals, large sets for other parts of the productions and hundreds of stagehands putting on the show.
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