The allegation is that he bought works of art - a very nice Monet among other things - and hung them on the walls of his duplex in Manhattan.

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The night I arrived, we dined with four delightful expat friends at a nice hotel restaurant, where I learned, among other things, that in 1992 a construction crew working for Ross Perot illegally blew up a coral reef so that he could moor his yacht, the Chateau Margaux, at his doorstep.

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At any rate, from her we heard, among many other things, that the first evidence of organized fire was found in Nice, dating back some 450, 000 years.

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Getting things done becomes inefficient as everyone tries to be nice to each other.

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Nice boxes like that take some selling, and Yara figures EMC has a good partner in SAS, which does a nice business selling analytics and tools (like graphics) for sales and marketing, among other things.

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Then IT, and all other functions, can strategically reallocate time and resources away from the "nice-to-haves" and toward the things that truly drive the business.

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He goes on to even predict the nice things that would be said about them and assure the purveyors of those comments that he had no other choice.

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