Lower humidity dries out the cork while more humid conditions can make a mess of the labels.
Moreover, the hassles of the phone business could make a mess of more than just Apple's business model.
But dictatorships can make a mess of things, too, if dictatorial over-confidence leads them to ignore hard facts.
"When you've got a clean shot like this, you don't want to make a mess of the gut, " he said.
But progress is slow because the politicians who are trying to influence what we discard and what we keep often make a mess of it.
Perhaps Mr Murdoch will make a mess of the Wall Street Journal by undermining its editorial independence though surely he is too shrewd a businessman to mess with so valuable a brand.
The stress in Europe is having a negative impact on global markets, but also threatens to make a mess of corporate earnings season thanks to its contribution to slowing growth around the world.
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In this sort of form, none of the lower order were likely to resist Anderson for long and Sulieman Benn frankly did well to last 12 balls, before a superb ball swung through his defences to make a mess of the stumps.
The effect of the two intertwined has been to make something of a mess of the statistics about the most popular news stories.
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The way cancers make a chaotic mess of their genetic code in order to thrive has been explained by UK researchers.
So, did Apple make a bit of a mess?
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But how do we make men without a college education less of a mess?
Diaz, for some reason, is repeatedly drawn to self-consciously grotesque little projects that usually don't accomplish much of anything at all, but make a huge mess while not accomplishing it.
Those glorious inundations moved massive quantities of sediment through the Grand Canyon, wiping the slate dirty, and making a muddy mess of silt and muck that would make modern river rafters cringe.
Needless to say, those who predicted with such confidence that America would make a hash of the war are now predicting confidently that it will mess up the peace.
The economic reality is that lawmakers from both parties have made a mess of things and will, in fact, make freedom less attainable if we continue to put so much faith in them.
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Yes, that means there is also a place for Nazis to congregate and for the darker sides of 4Chan to exist, and for trolls to make a mess all over our blogs, which are our businesses.
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In recent weeks, Tokyo has trotted out a parade of politicians and bureaucrats to make the pitch: the bad-loan mess at the banks is under control, more public-works money is rolling down the pipeline, consumers are perking up.
When he personally helped the Allies create institutions like the World Bank, at the end of World War II, he was trying to make sure we wouldn't get into such a mess again.
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