"In two years there has been a drastic change in regulations in Alberta, " de Margerie complains.
On the face of it, the case for a drastic change of direction is strong.
Given the overall fragile state of the recovering global economy, a drastic change in policy within Europe could prove disastrous.
"There's been a drastic change in the last 15 years in the way intercultural and interfaith marriages are viewed, " says the Rev.
Of course a drastic change in price levels made room for manoeuvre, because we could resolve part of the problem by not completely indexing government expenditure.
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The top houses only the headphone jack, a drastic change from the original Droid RAZR which also found room there for the HDMI and micro-USB ports.
Individuals who get their insurance from their employer and the large insurers who love the lucrative employer market would have never agreed to such a drastic change.
Lane, who a year earlier had risen to president and was seen as Ellison's heir apparent, began advising the boss that only a drastic change in leadership would save the applications business.
Creating a vegetarian restaurant was too much of a drastic change, so creating a concept of reducing the amount of meat and fish on a plate was what he saw as a compromise.
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Such a drastic change in our rating on a company is possible only when two rare events occur simultaneously: (1) the business accomplishes a dramatic improvement in its underlying economics, and (2) the market price fails to recognize the turnaround.
Would Samsung make a drastic change?
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About three years ago, U.S. Squash made a drastic change to its junior ranking system: Instead of being determined by an algorithm that evaluated the probabilities of matches between competitors, they now base rank on the number of points players earn at a tournament.
But then throw in the Kamchatka volcanoes, which are throwing massive amounts of dust into the air, causing the Arctic to be even colder and Arctic winds to push farther south, and you get a very drastic change in patterns.
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Despite feeling entitled by years of waiting around, you cannot expect instant gratification, particularly when a company requires drastic change just to stay alive.
For a franchise that has come as close as any in the league to embodying consistent excellence, such a slipup might have seemed a signal for drastic change, an indication that New Jersey's way of doing things was obsolete.
Many customers, especially on the enterprise side of the equation, are understandably a little wary of the drastic change that awaits them when upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8.
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"This change resulted in a drastic reduction in their take-home pay, " McElroen added.
That is a type of fundamental (and drastic) change to the concept of organizations, and incidentally also an approach fostering leadership across all levels of an organization.
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Unless there is drastic change we will see a rash of rationing of permitted flights, which will mean higher ticket prices, less economic productivity and a surge in passenger temperatures, which alone will bring on Al Gore's dreaded global warming.
Drastic short-term change could be hugely expensive and therefore politically unsustainable in the absence of a strong scientific consensus about its urgency.
This drastic shift in health care dollars may in fact destabilize the individual market, rather than slowly coaxing a change.
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The drastic tactic change worked in India's favour as captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh put on a match-winning 108-run seventh-wicket partnership, helping the home side to a 382-run lead.
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