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To compensate, he encourages in-person discussions; failing that, video beats text, even if video meetings are fatiguing and can blunt creativity.

Many bones showed fresh fractures caused by blunt impacts soon after the elephant's death, indicating deliberate breakage.

The Pentagon move could also blunt one of the strongest public pressures to end the shutdown: the risk of missing military paydays.

International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva was even more blunt: “Buckle up: uncertainty is the new normal and it is here to stay.”

The tornado, packing winds of 152 miles an hour, hit the city with blunt force, killing five people.