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Ury highlighted this practice through several compelling anecdotes.
While Benn launches into rambling but compelling anecdotes on political activism, Bailey intersperses the discourse with songs illustrating the point.
Be skeptical of data by all means, but also be skeptical of plausible explanations, conventional wisdom, inspiring ideologies, compelling anecdotes, and most of all your own intuition.
But in recent years, environmental groups and community activists, pointing to inconclusive but sometimes compelling anecdotes of possible water contamination, have complained that the drilling practice is far too loosely regulated.
The result is a hybrid that's reminiscent of the New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell: lots of compelling anecdotes, backed up with information from an array of surveys and research papers delivered in a tremendously readable style.
But the division made, it gives a structure that allows Ferguson to do what he does best, which is to jump around history taking fascinating empirical facts from one place, compelling anecdotes from another, and pulling it all together into a powerful fast-paced narrative.
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And that 'network effect' Bhusri mentioned means that "we are getting to such big numbers [in the Fortune 500] that the customers really do talk a lot amongst themselves". Bhusri later offered a compelling anecdote about the CIO of a Fortune 10 company whom Bhusri had been trying unsuccessfully to see for 5 years.
Charles N. Kahn 3d, chief operating officer of the Health Insurance Association of America, said, "The message should be no matter how compelling" the anecdotes that candidates repeat about bad care, "the costs will increase" if regulatory legislation is enacted.
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