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Those who make business plans should be experts.
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It has also created a system where getting into politics is a business venture, with business plans and an expected rate of return on investment.
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While associations are more visible, low-profile activity by individual business players has been geared towards influencing the policymaking process from within.
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Qualitative and quantitative measures of the business environment are statistically strongly and significantly correlated with respect to their effects on business performance (ibid.).
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A systematic formalism to define activities and business processes is presented, as well as clear mathematical formulation and template representations.
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We expect the opportunity cost hypothesis to be most relevant for members of the traditional conservative parties, who have stronger ties to the business community.
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Only where both coincide can business be expected to act out of moral concerns for past sins or the future public good.
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The strength of the work lies in historically reconstructing the gestural languages of laughter and weeping as conventional stage business.
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Whether changing the nature of that provision to a more personal and less business-like consultation will be what women users want remains to be seen.
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These tables are typically used for transactional purposes, that is, for the management of a business.
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Ultimately, weak business confidence reduces the potential for economic growth.
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The food is typically served only after any business, such as praying, is complete, and only then is there much conversation.
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Studying resources can therefore be helpful if one wants to understand the evolution of business-government relations over time.
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At the outset of the 1990s, there was remarkable consensus within the business community as to what kind of political economy it wanted.
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Corporate concentration had grown to such proportions that only the national government could rein in the dominance of big business.
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