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During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
In UNIX/Linux, the OS isn't tightly bound to a GUI, hence Linux's greater configurability for specific tasks, as well as its potential for more than one GUI.
It is much like terrain he has described before, only now, for the first time, he does not break down the description into a mere series of self-contained, tightly held moments.
At times, he's believably stricken, at others believably affectless--as if every emotion has been wrapped up so tightly for fear of discovery that there's no such thing as a "natural" response.
It presents a very limited level of flexibility and fits tightly into the receptor's binding pocket.