Why bother to invest in training when the benefits are likely to accrue to laggard firms? |
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This middle position may reassure educators that laggard schools will be prodded without undermining public education. |
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The only realistic way is to raise Britain's laggard productivity performance. |
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Pyongyang was also voicing mounting impatience with what it deemed laggard progress on the reactor project. |
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As the CEO of the laggard portal company, Lansing has faced his share of critics, and most of them are emphatic that his ideas won't work. |
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More important, India needs to get laggard companies out of state hands to help them grow again and make them competitive in world markets. |
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President Georgi Purvanov says Bulgaria does not want to be tied to laggard countries in its bid for European Union membership. |
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The only way we can cope ecologically is to make Australia an environmental leader, not a laggard. |
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Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish. |
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Even the laggard economies of Germany and Italy are beginning to look a lot better as they're helped by the weak currency. |
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Returns for the first group confirm the widely held belief that ownership requirements enhance the performance of laggard companies. |
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Fiorina insists all the laggard businesses will be profitable by the middle of next year, or face more pruning. |
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Many investors want him to get rid of laggard performers, such as GE Appliances and GE Lighting. |
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Since this study was published, both Mexico and Korea have begun easing their restrictions, leaving Canada as the sole laggard in this regard. |
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Among oECD countries, with respect to pension spending, Canada is neither a leader nor a laggard. |
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Canada is an innovator in the realm of human rights, but as Gomery shows, we are a laggard in the domain of human responsibility. |
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Canada has gone from a world leader just five years ago to a world laggard in key areas of innovation. |
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Indeed, half a millenium ago Europe might justly have been considered a laggard. |
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One key reason explains this laggard performance, namely investors' preoccupation with very low priced stocks with questionable fundamentals. |
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The job market has been a laggard in the slow US economic recovery but may be the key to both an increase in growth as well as dollar strength. |
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The U.K. originally hung back from embracing such policies, and as a result was a laggard in developing a solar industry. |
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Their words were soothing and completely removed any doubts we once had about possible product overlap or how 64-bit Xeons might slow already laggard Itanium sales. |
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Meanwhile, the steady rise in equity prices this year means that laggard companies are better able to restructure by selling off noncore assets at reasonable prices. |
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Operational tempo seemed particularly laggard after major victories, when maintaining the momentum of victory would seem to have promised the greatest rewards. |
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Some key organizers think the AFL-CIO should still push laggard unions to organize more and help to coordinate more strategic, coordinated campaigns. |
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On the environment, Canada continues to be seen as a laggard on the environment. |
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The latter move could liberalise a host of industries from shipping to finance. It is now America's turn to be the laggard. |
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Conversely, Newfoundland and Labrador should be the laggard as waning oil production weighs on its growth. |
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The first thing I would note is that 34 out of 53 countries have preferred or super-priority status, so Canada is the laggard. |
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High as the Canadian service sector contribution appears to be, in fact Canada is a relative laggard when compared with other OECD economies. |
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Nevertheless, the work programme indicates that the anti-sweatshop movement continues to search for long-term systemic solutions even if it has to employ a campaign logic to steer laggard brands in this direction. |
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The period saw the decline of the UK as a prominent world leader, with the loss of practically the entire empire and a laggard economy. |
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Between blinks Tommy saw Temple in the path, her body slender and motionless for a moment as though waiting for some laggard part to catch up. |
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At this critical time, Canada cannot be a laggard. |
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A nation once praised as a leader but now viewed as a laggard. |
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Indonesia, the perpetual laggard, has dropped a plan to go soft on corrupt and indebted tycoons and brought in a new, supposedly more scrupulous team to sell the state's industrial assets. |
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Even before the crisis struck, Greece was a laggard. |
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Germany is a laggard when it comes to women on boards, though the numbers have been rising, as they have in places such as Britain that have no quotas. |
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Why is the government always a laggard instead of a leader? |
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When will the government make Canada a leader not a laggard by bringing in hard limits on greenhouse gases based on absolute scientific benchmarks? |
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Since the United States' refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol in 2001, the country has been considered a laggard in the international effort to combat climate change. |
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Canada is a bit of a laggard in that space. |
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This means making governments more aware of their responsibilities here, if necessary with EU aid to laggard countries being tied to improved compliance with deadlines. |
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We have gone from being a world leader in 2003 to a world laggard. |
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Under this Prime Minister Canada went from being a leader on climate change to a laggard, a lead weight pulling down our national policies and the Kyoto process at the same time. |
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In some instances, approaches have been adopted to stimulate laggard regions, to reinforce highly performing ones, and to diversify older industrial areas into higher technology ones. |
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Firms which were suspected of deviating from the plan were required to explain themselves to the others and pressure was put on any perceived laggard to put up its prices to the agreed levels. |
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Being a laggard in the use of instruments such as MBIs may not have been such a bad thing if this brings Canada to develop a better understanding of how they can be used strategically. |
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Europe will probably still be a laggard with weak growth, the impact of the budget austerity measures being estimated at around 1 point of growth. |
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The committee learned that the federal government is both a leader and a laggard in providing care to seniors under their jurisdictional responsibility. |
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It remains to be seen and I would like to see the U. S not be a laggard in this and Canada could help he U. S feel like it should move into the lead and please do. |
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Despite a gradual decline in the Total Fertility Rate, currently close to 4, Pakistan has been a laggard in achieving a breakthrough on this front. |
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Wages were laggard, and the poor and retired were especially hard hit. |
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Sluggard, laggard, dawdler, dosser, lickdish, cadger, sponger, loafer. |
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