The move is being seen by outsiders as a reward to employees and a show of strength to competitors.
The global recession only nicked Australia and, in a show of strength, Oz led the world in raising interest rates last year.
Parliamentary heavyweights Amien Rais and Akbar Tandjung have rallied Muslim anger in the capital in a show of strength aimed at Wahid and his Vice President, Megawati Sukarnoputri.
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Besides avenging the Ashdod bombing, the assassination of Mr Yassin may have been a show of strength by Israel, ahead of its proposed pull-out from most of the Gaza strip.
And they stood out there very much in a kind of a show of strength and a rally atmosphere and saying we're going to stand against the Democrats' attempts to put a timetable on our involvement in Iraq.
His triumphal progress with al-Aqsa fighters in Gaza this week was both a show of strength and a reminder of potential weakness: they were of a branch loyal to Muhammad Dahlan, the Gaza security chief who is one of Mr Abbas's staunch backers, and thus one of his chief props.
When a convoy of scores of armed jeeps sporting the black flag signalling sympathy for al-Qaeda recently put on a show of strength in Benghazi's courthouse square, where Libya's revolution began in February last year, thousands of young people, summoned to oppose them by Facebook and text messages, poured into the square and forced them to leave.
It has described his arrest as a "show of strength put on for the sake of the public".
The show had been a true test of courage and strength and had brought with it valuable lessons in how to run a show.
Even so, the government will be relieved that the rally did not become a show of the PKK's strength.
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"It's part of a career to show that you have the mental strength to deal with this kind of situation, " he said.
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That would give USAA, which focuses on quality, a chance to buy companies that tend to trail those type of rallies and show strength when the market is in a more defensive mode.
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Then the Exeter Northcott invited Show Of Strength to create a new version for Sidwell Street as part of the Exeter Autumn Festival.
As Mr Biden was showing off US military hardware in Beirut, Hezbollah was staging its own show of strength in Nabatieh, a provincial centre south-east of the capital.
With its long history of working with high tech vendors, ASUS is able to show its strength and commitment to innovation with a close relationship to three of the leading brands currently producing products with Thunderbolt technology, Elgato, LaCie, and PROMISE.
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Contrast that with the Bank's forecasts, which show a much sharper drop in the growth rate in 1998 as the strength of the pound finally hits exports, before a rebound in 1999.
The council needs to show independent strength if it is not to be perceived by Iraqis as a puppet of outside forces.
"Looks to me like investors are extremely concerned today over the viability of this institution, which shows that the Fannie and Freddie show of government strength just yesterday can't be expected to be a national, let alone a global, panacea, " said Andrew Wilkinson, an options analyst at Interactive Brokers.
Fifty years ago this month I visited the White House with my parents and my brothers and sisters to visit a young President who went on to show great strength, leadership and vision in the face of enormous challenges in those times.
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Back in Scotland rehearsing a new show for the National Theatre of Scotland - incidentally the same play, Macbeth - he acknowledges the strength of the sector and its role in feeding into other areas such as film and television.
Greenblatt has said that he wants NBC to reassert its strength as a sitcom leader and many pundits have said that the new Fox show is an example of how Greenblatt is going to do that.
"The temptation to show its strength first and foremost must have been overwhelming for a regime that showed as little weakness in the face of the Arab Spring, " the Telegraph's Richard Spencer said.
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