For members of the local community board who worked closely with Mr. de Portzamparc and his staff during the approval process, the switch suggests a broader flaw in the land-use process, which approves broad-brush building forms known as envelopes but not specific designs.

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"The process of trying to switch from one supplier to another is hideously complicated - very off-putting even for quite intelligent people, " Tim Yeo MP, chair of the Energy and Climate Change Committee told the BBC.

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Throughout the seven years of the Oslo peace process, he would switch between being president of the Palestinian Authority, when he needed to get tough with his own dissidents, and being chief of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, when he wanted the Tanzim to raise the heat on Israel.

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Indeed, and I do see a lot of savings and efficiency benefits in consolidating services on the Cisco comm servers allowing better subhost store-and-forward switch logic leveraging business process management minimizing installations and connections to myriads of web services and redundancies which often cause inconsistencies and even data integrity issues.

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Although his team won six of its eight matches since the Olympics, with 26 goals coming in the process, Menezes struggled to justify his switch away from the freeflowing, samba-style football associated with Brazil.

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We need to make the case to customers that they will benefit from this switch and right now we are just beginning the process of doing so.

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Experience has shown that the best way to change a process is to set up the new way of doing things, then flip the switch (flip method), rather than making incremental changes (drip method).

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Until they can develop a strong enough battery, a process he predicts will take three to five years, Formula E drivers will simply switch cars during pit stops so the depleted battery can be recharged.

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