"When you have got a team travelling the distance they are you want to get out of the blocks quickly, " he said.

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There is no underground subway system out here to take that can connect LA county to the heart of Los Angeles itself and everything is spaced out with just enough distance that ultimately you have to drive to get from point A to point B.

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You have to have a strong defensive understanding and point men who can take the lob, strike from distance and have penetrating skills.

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But I don't have a way, from this distance, to comment on the question that you raise.

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In "Back Street in Jarrow, Tyneside" (1937), the cat in the foreground is clear enough, but you have to penetrate the smog to see the woman hanging wash on a clothesline in the distance.

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"The actual word shape was the most distinctive thing because if you had Birmingham in capitals, from a distance, it's difficult to read but in caps and lower case you have word shape, " says Calvert.

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But add to this, here, very significant cross-cultural management and staff issues, problems of distance, and regulatory systems that are often purposed to different ends, and you have a leadership challenge indeed for firms that venture down this path.

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