Or take Amazon.com, whose continuing success depends partly on a host of savvy merchandising decisions, including decisions about prices, shipping discounts and targeted email notices about new offerings.

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And I've made very clear, and I'll amplify in my speech to Parliament tomorrow, that even as we make a whole host of important fiscal decisions back home, this is right up there at the top of my priority list.

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Faced with an increasingly diverse workforce due not only to generational differences, but also globalization, later retirement dates and a host of other factors, organizations have a number of critical talent management decisions: ranging from taking into account varying skills of employees to dealing with differing preferences and motives.

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This frenzy is making people anxious, goading some into making decisions that require guesswork about a host of interconnected events over which they have no control.

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We may not be able to stem baseline tuition inflation, but technology can cut costs in a host of other areas ranging from housing to poorly informed decisions.

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