It's "Top Chef" distilled into one claustrophobic, jittery, 10-minute scene, with no shopping trip or backstage posturing — just cooking with an even greater edge of desperation.
And while he said he cared greatly about his poll numbers, his top goal wasn't to leave the convention with a greater edge over Mrs. Clinton.
Governments like to know that their contractors are serious operations, unlikely to vanish overnight which favours firms like GE.Financial scale and flexibility will also give companies a greater edge than usual, whether in greenfield investments or in acquisitions.
"Every day they go past it will put more pressure on the Palestinians to declare a Palestinian state unilaterally and more pressure on the Israelis to have some greater edge and conflict in their relations as a result of that," Mr. Clinton said.
As if today's Olympic basketball group match between the world champions Spain and the USA wasn't infused with enough meaning, along comes Jason Kidd to add even greater edge to a match widely regarded as a full dress rehearsal for next Sunday's final.
On the landscape scale, M2 showed lower β diversity and greater edge density (ED) than M1.
Successful nests had more low cover, less vertical diversity, more woody debris, more saplings, and greater edge density than failed nests.
This prediction was based on the assumption that predators (mites, ants, spiders, centipedes) select edge during foraging and thereby reduce abundance of the less mobile consumer group under box patterns with greater edge.
Some indicators of forest condition were within the range expected under natural disturbance, but we found relatively less old conifer, more young deciduous and greater edge density in managed forests relative to forests of natural disturbance origin.
Smaller plots have a greater edge length to area ratio than larger plots, and errors arising from GPS position uncertainty are also more pronounced in smaller than larger plots, as the same positioning offset will cause greater misalignment between field and LiDAR data in smaller than larger plots.
