The dominance of a single individual gives them clear lines of command and enormous flexibility.
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The Phillips Collection is dedicated to the unique aesthetic vision of a single individual.
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Starting and growing new companies requires a variety of skills, and seldom is a new firm started by a single individual.
One reason is that News Corp. represents the judgments and whims of a single individual: Murdoch, who wields 38% of its voting shares.
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Basically you are managing a single individual inside a 3-D cartoon.
Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt told the BBC that the violation came from "the actions of a single individual that were not authorised by the executives".
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Even studies of such dominating figures as Churchill or Hitler inevitably risk distorting great events by projecting them through the acts and experiences of a single individual.
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"Whether the motivation is racism or some psychological disorder ... in an open society, it is impossible to keep a single individual from doing some damage, " he said.
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Since then, aside from one Austrian bodybuilder, the Republican Party has not elected a single individual to any state-wide office or held a majority in either house of the legislature.
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Now, at this stage in the review process it appears that this incident was not the fault of a single individual or organization, but rather a systemic failure across organizations and agencies.
With a single individual time-trial and fewer finishes at high altitude, the 2005 Tour could be a little less demanding than in recent years and give the likes of Jan Ullrich and Joseba Beloki more recovery time.
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It's easy to imagine a scenario at a party where users are standing, phones at the ready, to join a sharing session, but everyone's being held up by a single individual who received the invitation before them and isn't paying attention to their phone.
While a commission is probably the appropriate body to establish the rules and regulations that govern the securities markets, it would be better to have a single individual with the authority to bring or settle cases, an individual who has extensive litigation experience and experience conducting investigations.
The core of Mr Selig's argument is that baseball is not really a collection of individual teams, but a single national enterprise that, to be successful, must give each participant an equal chance to win every year.
This has prompted predictions that regulators may end up treating such entities not as a single shareholder, but as a collection of individual investors.
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The boss in the made-to-order containers company I told you about last week shared what he had learned from a customer with every single individual who worked in the plant.
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Either a single payer model or guaranteed issued individual insurance would have been a much simpler solution.
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Advanced investors might want to consider swapping a single ETF or mutual fund for a basket of individual stocks similar to the ones contained by the funds.
Funds, therefore, are created as a means to aggregate these individual sums of money into a single pool which can be managed efficiently and effectively.
To put this in perspective, a single megabyte contains eight million individual bits, which are the smallest units of information.
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The distributed shares also include a smaller number of shares that were distributed by Andreessen Horowitz from a side vehicle to a single high-net worth individual investor.
Venter's quest could be a fable, with all sorts of morals about the power of capitalism and the importance of a single, brilliant, willful individual who used the market to shake the ivory towers of science.
The MPs criticise the decision to change council tax benefit at a time when the entire welfare system is being overhauled - and many individual benefits consolidated into a single Universal Credit.
Based on such a life, a clean liver is free to use rational persuasion to reach any individual within his purview with a single unrelenting message: healthy, life-promoting values are the meaning of life.
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Next is the camera's Multiple Exposure mode where users can combine up to nine individual images into a single composite image, with no need for later computer post-processing.
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This arrangement makes the chip particularly suitable for image-processing, because each analogue element of the array can be made to correspond to a single pixel (one of the individual dots of which an image is composed).
Howard and his legal team say they plan to appear in federal court in San Diego, California, later this week, trying to persuade a federal judge to combine the 88 individual lawsuits so far filed against Toyota into a single class-action litigation.
He is relocating work around an individual disease category to a single site and giving each autonomy.
The first is that the phenomenon is real, that groups can indeed perform at a higher level of creativity than any single individual.
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In early November, cable bosses rejected the idea of a single operating system and decided to leave individual companies to make their own deals.
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