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Programs that are managed without the knowledge-based process are more likely to have surprises in the form of cost and schedule increases that are accommodated by disrupting the funding of other programs.
One of the many pleasant surprises in India is the way that its classical music — heard perhaps in snatches back in the West and often dismissed as something hopelessly beyond an ordinary Westerner’s appreciation — grows on you when you hear it in the country of its creation.
Critics deem the roster free of surprises.
It quoted Ivanov as saying, in reference to the American ABM initiative, that it is vital that the two countries "spring no more surprises on each other."
Turan in the Los Angeles Times is captivated: Besides being "smartly written" and "directed with a lively intelligence," the film "has several surprises in its repertoire, and most--but not all--of them make this a most pleasant and diverting venture," he says.