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However, the less successful Closed Curtain (2013, directed with Kambuzia Partovi) was a claustrophobically self - referential chamber piece, and suggested that Panahi's plight was getting the better of him.

Not exact matches

Apollo said it will pay $ 17.12 per share in cash for ClubCorp, a 30.7 percent premium over its closing price on Friday, but less than the 12 - month high of $ 17.50 the shares reached in February, on investor expectations that a sale process first reported by Reuters in January would be successful.

The lay - off of influential playmaking midfielder Luca Modric, who broke his leg during Tottenham Hotspur's clash with Birmingham City and is not expected to be fit until late October, is less likely to diminish the club's strong start to the season as Niko Kranjcar — a near like - for - like replacement — edges closer to a permanent move to White Hart Lane following a successful medical.

• The stepfather - child relationship is substantially more challenging than the biological - father - child relationship: the relationship is not as close; stepfathers are less affectionate and more coercive with stepchildren; and stepchildren tend to be less warm and affectionate with stepfathers — even in long - term fairly successful stepfamilies (for review see Radhakrishna et al, 2001).

Since the window for successful fertilization can be as short as a day or less, you also need accurate prediction as the time of ovulation draws close.

The two films create interesting dynamic in contrast unlike similar competing films close in release (think Capote and the less successful Infamous), illuminating both the subject and the larger societal implications of her case when seen in close proximity.

Portfolio management guided solely by test scores would seriously harm students by unwittingly closing a bunch of successful schools, like those Booker, et al studied in Florida, while expanding and pouring more resources into ones with less impressive long - term results, like those studied by Angirst, et al, Dobbie and Fryer, and Tuttle, et al..

According to HMIe the need for improvement is great, as research has indicated that Scottish education is less successful than other countries in closing the gap between the achievements of children from well - off and less well - off homes.

There is much less agreement on whether Dade's resurgence has more to do with the Texas Organizing Project's community work, Nutall's close oversight, or, alternately, a belatedly successful intervention by Miles, whose administration found a hyper - competent principal in Tracie Washington and offered the district's best teachers a hefty salary bump to teach at Dade.

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It could not be fitted with a bayonet, so in close combat it was less successful.

The Ghosts n» Goblins series, the series of shooters beginning with 1942, Commando and a couple of close relatives, Final Fight, and the Street Fighter II series have all seen multiple releases on multiple platforms since then, but many of Capcom's well - loved - though perhaps less - successful - titles have languished.

Where the game is less successful is in its spells and ranged combat, which feel altogether clunkier and less nuanced than fighting up close and personal.

However, the software was a highly customized version of Android with some successful tweaks — like flicking up open apps to close them from the pull - up menu bar — and some less so, such as the iOS-esque notification shade.

Believe it or not, you will be more successful if you think less of your success in possibly closing the deal and more on providing a solution.

We've rounded up successful real estate agents, professional stagers and interior designers to share staging secrets so you can focus more on closings and less on staging!

Additionally, sellers place weight on an agent's reputation in the neighborhood (74 percent), a recent track record of successful sale closings (72 percent) and, to a lesser degree, online reviews (54 percent).