Bain prescribed pulling together analysts scattered around the company into a team and hiring a skilled leader.

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Together with six freelance employees, scattered across the globe from Byron Bay, Australia to Frankfurt, Ms. McDonald watches the weather and harvest conditions and communicates with the teams in Ecuador.

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The shards of our broken economy remain scattered on the ground and we're gluing them back together.

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Third, a business education can indeed produce entrepreneurs who see opportunity in a scattered puzzle and focus on putting the pieces together successfully.

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In the meantime Gallo and Evans had already formed the Waterford Project, which arose from Gallo's frustration with the pace of vaccine research and his desire to bring scattered researchers together.

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The dorms were widely scattered, though some, resembling midsized family homes, were clustered together.

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The U.S.-based leadership of this group is scattered around the U.S. pursuing a variety of majors at respected universities working together to make a difference in Ghana.

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Together the four networks own about 50 stations in major markets, leaving just under 1, 200 commercial stations scattered across the nation not owned by the major networks that could be targeted by the liquor industry.

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