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The company is growing faster than its competition due to a best in class reference customer list and more recently, the launch of software that is easier to use, focuses on alerting users when something is wrong, and finally, a push into the mid-market with an in-house sales force.

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Anita Attridge, a New York career coach, suggests sending your reference an e-mail with a bullet point list of achievements she can mention when a hiring manager calls.

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But as the people we spotlight increasingly find reasons and opportunity to connect their enterprises with the rest of the globe, the list will become a vital reference for the rest of us.

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The report gives a list of eight "Black Swan" scenarios -- a reference to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book "Black Swan, " which posits that history is built on unforeseeable, surprise events.

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Croatian daily Novi List says that the new union "is already ridiculed and declared a 'Solania'", a reference to EU High Representative Javier Solana.

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