You could almost see the flames of competitiveness burning inside him and, although fierce, he was a man of character and kindness. |
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Future investments will be concentrated into the automotive business in order to improve its competitiveness. |
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We met at a conference on industrial competitiveness and no, we never consummated our relationship sexually. |
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In occidental astrology mars is in Taurus which represents less energy and competitiveness than mars in Aries. |
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Setting up a website will in itself improve your company's competitiveness rating. |
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He is highly respected throughout the cricket association for his skill and competitiveness. |
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This sets the boys into a frenzy of competitiveness carefully concealed behind the private school ethic of nonchalance. |
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The eagerness and competitiveness seen at all quiz events were evident here too. |
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Britain's recent dearth of sporting champions has also been blamed on schemes that oppose competitiveness. |
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But, also like baseball, it's entirely pardonable in view of its good-natured competitiveness and unpretentious charm. |
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Again, thanks to circumstances beyond our control, our competitiveness has been eroded. |
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Another challenge is that the competitiveness of medical research can hamper collaborative research. |
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He said problems of competitiveness would also severely constrain the small industry sector, which he feared would stagnate. |
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For many Republicans, the abiding feeling of the last generation has been that this unique pattern of party competitiveness was an aberration. |
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Sports contests can channel young people's natural competitiveness in character-building directions. |
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Expecting the players to curb their aggression and competitiveness when trying to win a match is going too far. |
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Mr McQuaid says while the inflation battle has been won, we may have lost the competitiveness war. |
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By making inroads in urban communities, Republicans could offset Democratic suburban gains and maintain electoral competitiveness. |
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Alas, rigidity is key to the handling of a race car, so no team is going to sacrifice its competitiveness for safety. |
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But actions speak louder than words and previous competitiveness white papers have yielded few tangible results. |
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In addition, logistics inefficiency increases transaction costs that in turn put more downward pressure on competitiveness. |
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Either way, the end result will be a decline in the competitiveness of the business. |
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Increased price competitiveness forces the firm to discount the price to maintain its market share. |
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The loss they see is personal and immediate, while the benefits of increased productivity, competitiveness and innovation are diffuse and global. |
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To sustain economic growth, and global competitiveness Singapore needs to constantly renew and upgrade its workforce. |
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As firms gain advantage through the various sources of competitiveness, relative market share and profits increase. |
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Technology advances international competitiveness by bringing in just-in-time delivery and client specific products. |
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How do we preserve the strength and competitiveness of our aerospace industry? |
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His raw skills and competitiveness make him a terrific prospect, but the learning curve will continue to be steep. |
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Their goal is to raise the profile and competitiveness of Kenyan horticultural exports on European markets. |
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Its aim was to help such countries to acquire technology and sustainability by reforming their institutions and improving their competitiveness. |
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To rise to these global challenges we have this week announced the next stage in our competitiveness reforms. |
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The report emphasizes that the pessimistic prognoses of some critics that the initiatives would damage competitiveness have been dashed. |
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The different tax regimes operating in different countries make it difficult to judge the relative competitiveness of the Irish market. |
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The government was striving, in alliance with big business, to increase British competitiveness. |
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As a result Britain has slipped down every league table of international competitiveness to rest with the laggards of continental Europe. |
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Come springtime, hockey players seem to morph into superhuman creations of competitiveness, physicality and gamesmanship. |
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Product launch and program management is becoming an increasingly critical element of supplier competitiveness. |
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Even its responsiveness to change may be a determining factor in its competitiveness. |
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When that is done, he can lecture the rest of racing about the lack of competitiveness. |
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Boeing needs a strong board and a rejuvenated corporate culture based on innovation and competitiveness, not crony capitalism. |
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With the rise in wage costs and prices, increased inflation led to lower competitiveness. |
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More significant job losses and a decline in living standards could occur, if the decline in cost competitiveness is allowed to persist. |
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Without a doubt, the loonie's sharp appreciation has somewhat eroded the competitiveness of Canada's export sector. |
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The falling currency would have rectified the competitiveness of Irish exporters. |
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The lowlight, in terms of competitiveness, was at Daytona, home to NASCAR and its flagship track. |
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Pride and passion, macho and vulnerability, competitiveness and exhaustion all intermingle on the stage. |
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There has been an improvement in the price competitiveness of Irish cattle relative to others available on the EU market. |
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Movements in exchange rates are perhaps the most common comparator used for international competitiveness at the macroeconomic level. |
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A healthy spirit of competitiveness ran intensely among the groups as they vied with each other. |
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His competitiveness was legendary, and as hard as he was on himself, he made impossible demands on his son. |
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In overall terms, the trade data reflect the weakness of external demand and the general loss of cost competitiveness. |
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It may be expedient to allow the currency to depreciate in order to obtain a rapid improvement in competitiveness. |
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These sports serve to define dominant masculinity, connecting manhood with violence and competitiveness and often marginalising girls and women. |
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Could the competitiveness of schoolboy games be fuelled by over-the-top media coverage, one wonders? |
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The strength of the US dollar significantly improved the competitiveness of EU exporters. |
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A sharper fall in the dollar would hurt the competitiveness of our exports. |
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Improved competitiveness facilitated by the euro bodes well for Germany's medium-term economic prospects. |
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The traditional climb up the professional ladder can be one of competitiveness and self-promotion. |
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Our cost competitiveness in the middle of the chain has been seriously eroded. |
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He should exert himself to enhance the competitiveness of the education system despite mounting difficulties. |
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The only and best way to tide over the difficulties is to improve the technological competitiveness of domestic enterprises. |
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Existing industries also are suffering due to goods damaged in transit, therefore affecting their competitiveness and long-term sustainability. |
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We seek to maintain and deepen competitiveness, especially by addressing infrastructure deficits. |
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In the '80s, a growing competitiveness for rental ground was fostered by retired farmers cash renting to the highest bidders. |
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These results show that the mirid compromises waterhyacinth competitiveness, and validate the introduction of the mirid into South Africa. |
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Impatience, mistrustfulness, and competitiveness with other writers can be very damaging to a career. |
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High-protein soybean varieties may improve competitiveness of livestock producers. |
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Frankly, I hope that the female contestants are a bit more couth about their competitiveness than we were, Matt. |
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Continued focus on competitiveness, sustained by more deregulation, is all part of the mix. |
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He said the partnership process must underpin competitiveness as the core element of any possible new agreement. |
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For me, as a slalomer, I work hard to keep my consistency and competitiveness up to par. |
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Openness to trade acts as a spur to efficiency, innovation, and international competitiveness generally. |
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He has an unenviable task of improving national and international competitiveness for Scottish food products. |
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The tension was thick as the teams were bubbling with competitiveness, but all under the pretence of fun, natch. |
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Here a high degree of competitiveness is regarded as distasteful or unseemly. |
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Restructuring denotes the reorientation of firms into more efficient units, gaining competitiveness and fueling growth. |
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The other side of the bind is that competitiveness has traditionally been viewed as unwomanly. |
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The study sorted out the data according to the competitiveness of the race. |
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Camaraderie, competitiveness and poise characterized the 2002 women's tennis team. |
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There has been a massive temporary boost to our competitiveness from a low dollar, which is the main reason for our current economic buoyancy. |
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The deterioration of trade competitiveness has offset any positive impact that might have been derived from overseas domestic consumption. |
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The new government hopes to improve the competitiveness of its exports. |
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While it wasn't a raging success for soccer, the protector did have the side effect of increasing the competitiveness of the girls due to increased confidence. |
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Have done more damage to American competitiveness than al Qaeda ever could. |
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Each year, we rate all 50 states on more than 50 metrics in 10 categories of competitiveness. |
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For many years, Italy maintained its competitiveness by serial devaluations. |
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Such reforms will not only raise revenue, but also increase American competitiveness in the global marketplace and create jobs. |
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In contrast, the Angolan kwanza and the Nigerian naira have depreciated against the US dollar over the period which may have protected their competitiveness. |
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It also dooms effective longer-term investment in infrastructure that is the prerequisite for global competitiveness. |
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America also thinks the EU has got it wrong with regard to its overall competitiveness policy which it often terms Europe's anticompetitiveness policy. |
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The opening weeks of 2005 are giving a firm pointer to the increased competitiveness and dramatic developments that will shape the telecommunications sector this year. |
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Let me therefore first expand a little on Greek, and especially Spartan, competitiveness, and then on Greek, and especially Spartan, attitudes to and practices of freedom. |
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Toby in front of me was rowing like a demon, his competitiveness harnessed and proving very effective and Wheelie kept bellowing and keeping us focused. |
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Within the private sector, few would quarrel with the International Monetary Fund's obiter dicta about wage restraint being necessary for competitiveness. |
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Confidence and ambition regarding the international competitiveness of these industries made trade barriers and protection appear unnecessary and obstructive. |
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As well as pushing up the value of the currency directly, a flood of petrodollars may also undermine manufacturing competitiveness by stoking inflation. |
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Finally, the concepts of competitiveness and revealed comparative advantages, which are essential to the evaluation of sustainable growth, are discussed. |
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It is that we allowed our competitiveness to override our common sense. |
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Enthusiasts show little concern for the scars left by the fish's teeth, and it's really their obsessiveness and competitiveness that provide the focus for this documentary. |
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While the American contestants were more serious in their competitiveness, they were wracked with guilt about demonstrating individualistic, competitive qualities. |
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The top-line aims are to protect humans and wildlife from the threat of chemicals without negatively affecting the competitiveness of the chemical industry. |
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Many service organizations have sought to pass on a greater part of the production process to their customers in order to retain price competitiveness. |
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Wouldn't the cost of running the direct-mail operation further undermine the company's price competitiveness in comparison to the retailers' own brands? |
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In the longer term, sustained improvements in competitiveness require continuous macroeconomic stability and constant vigilance on the part of individual firms. |
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These interviews result in politicians talking defensively about how great a place Ireland is to invest and how the closures have nothing to do with Irish competitiveness. |
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Countries including Korea, the United States and China are claiming that eco-labelling damages their competitiveness and acts as a barrier to trade. |
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Sheep establish a dominance hierarchy through fighting, threats and competitiveness. |
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The report's ranking of 183 countries is based on measures of economic openness, regulatory efficiency, rule of law, and competitiveness. |
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Mauritius is ranked high in terms of economic competitiveness, a friendly investment climate, good governance and a free economy. |
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Due to the adoption of the euro, when Greece experienced financial crisis, it could no longer devalue its currency to regain competitiveness. |
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By using the PMM, organizational competitiveness is measured in an Attractiveness-Strength coordinate system. |
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The new philosophy is to strengthen competitiveness, value-added and outwardness of existing producers. |
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Nonprice competitiveness also relates to a different set of factors that are indirectly linked to price. |
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Singapore does not have a minimum wage, believing that it would lower its competitiveness. |
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On the one hand, French unilingualism would place roadblocks to adoption of anglo-American concepts, hence a fall in competitiveness. |
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For the GCC, as for other resource-rich countries, non-hydrocarbon export competitiveness may be undermined through the Dutch disease effect. |
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Interruptible natural gas rates were recently restructured to ensure competitiveness with alternative fuels. |
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This case study is yet another example of how Sonics SMART Interconnect solutions can act as a foundation for improving competitiveness. |
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Progress in PWB technology and manufacturing drives United States competitiveness in both existing products and new technologies. |
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To assess the level of competitiveness sustained in strategic resources, Barney and Hesterly suggest the use of the VRIO structure. |
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It's a paean to educational progressivism dressed up as a guide to economic competitiveness. |
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Best believes that Dongbu's diversified distribution channel strategy will strengthen its market competitiveness in the long term. |
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The identity dovetails with images of environmental purity, artisanality, adaptability, competitiveness, creativity, and sophistication. |
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Mechanism of pemetrexed is better than traditional antifolate drugs with great competitiveness in the field. |
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It doesn't mean better lives, reduced costs and increased competitiveness so we've misplayed this. |
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Species rankings for carbon fixation rate, one estimate of competitiveness, depended on light levels to which their leaves were exposed. |
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The first axis, focuses on improving the competitiveness of the farm and forestry sector through support for restructuring, development and innovation. |
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As such, the euro, for all its other benefits, exacerbated the relative competitiveness and uncompetitiveness of European economies, trapping them in an unsustainable cycle. |
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Finland is a top performer in numerous metrics of national performance, including education, economic competitiveness, civil liberties, quality of life, and human development. |
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The EC published Thursday two reports on industrial competitiveness. |
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However, the unforeseen consequences of the country's huge energy wealth impacted the competitiveness of other sectors of the economy, leading to the theory of Dutch disease. |
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Develop the troubleshooting toots you need to improve your paper manufacturing process by reducing variability, improving efficiency, and improving cost competitiveness. |
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Fierce competitiveness and supreme self-confidence characterize the chilihead, who will defend the superiority of his recipe with a crusader's zeal. |
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Lebanon's blogging community has in recent past shown its cattier competitiveness, which is why the supportive turnout Tuesday night was a testament to Khairallah's success. |
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In that time he has impressed with the speed and economy of his bowling, the bubbliness of his personality and even the competitiveness of his batting. |
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Indexation helps protect Saskatchewan taxpayers from bracket creep and is part of our government s commitment to fairness and competitiveness in taxation. |
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Some studies The same report concludes that in Europe, using hydraulic fracturing would have very little advantage in terms of competitiveness and energy security. |
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And even if Greece was able to pare down the debt without killing its economy through an acute aggregate demand shock, the country anyway has a huge competitiveness problem. |
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In the organizational context, innovation may be linked to positive changes in efficiency, productivity, quality, competitiveness, and market share. |
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Today Japan ranks highly for competitiveness and economic freedom. |
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The Centre for International Competitiveness was founded in 2007, and focuses on researching and exploring the competitiveness of economies and businesses. |
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When they publicly bet a large sum on their favorite horse, it told the world that competitiveness, individualism, and materialism where the core elements of gentry values. |
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