Confidence comes from an often-messy process of trial and error.
"Prof had an informal, often messy, lab in the basement," recalled Frank Hines, an assistant who followed Mr. Ruge to Ruge-de Forest as its first employee.
The essence of a democracy is a full, often messy, generally contentious debate.
With $10 million from Congress last summer, and a similar amount this year, the Russian Leadership Program offers Russians -- many under 40 years old -- a brief but intense encounter with a noisy, often messy but remarkably open form of governance.
A campaign is an agonizingly stressful, often messy and highly emotional process, and I'd wager that even some of the noblest, most admirable politicians could be made to look bad — probably not Palin bad, but bad nonetheless — by the repetition of certain candid remarks and the recounting of certain intimate scenes.
"This is a common and often messy business," said Jack Guttentag, a mortgage expert and emeritus finance professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
But while there has been some consolidation, the number of places where a song may be streamed — from social media sites like Twitter through to other, smaller streaming services like Tidal (which is getting acquired by Jay-Z) — remains a wide and often messy field.
It also allows for the co-production of solutions where an ever-dynamic and often messy group of people/organizations/agencies involve each other in a problem-solving process (external).
Eating fondue, rarely a solo activity, and often messy, does lend itself to having fun.
Although Moe describes FDR's execution of his decision to run for a third term as "often messy, unattractive, and laced with arrogance, its essence came from Roosevelt's moral core.
