But in a world of rapid change in the marketplace, of an increasing proportion of knowledge work, of increasing technical complexity of the work, and where customers who do not even know themselves what will delight them, stable predictable work environments are largely a thing of the past.
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But he's part of an increasing number of regular folks leaping into wireless connectivity.
No mention of an increasing habit of workers cocooning themselves by wearing headphones and listening to music.
Harvard's policies, like those of an increasing number of employers, allow it to monitor official workplace email.
Ms Khatum is one of an increasing number of brides imported into Haryana, one of India's richest states.
He sees it, in particular, as something that could be built into the solar water-heaters that adorn the roofs of an increasing number of houses.
The cyberattack was one of an increasing number of such offensives against corporations, including large financial institutions, and raises questions about what companies can do to guard against them.
Best Buy took a step in the right direction when it hired former Starbucks executive Stephen Gillett as a president and put him in charge of an increasing number of areas.
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The federation is unhappy with the government's proposed radical overhaul of pay and conditions, and a challenge to the existing model of policing with the privatisation of an increasing number of jobs.
Jonathan Berger, a professor of music at Stanford, said he had conducted an informal study among his students and found that, over the roughly seven years of the study, an increasing number of them preferred the sound of files with less data over the high-fidelity recordings.
The biggest push on this front has come in the form of support for an increasing number of devices for the Cloud Player.
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With the rapid adoption of mobile devices, an increasing number of users are using these devices to access the internet.
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The diversity and range of opportunities has attracted an increasing number of start-up companies that have targeted one or more of these applications.
He notes, for instance, that some students are choosing iPads instead of notebooks, with an increasing selection of iPad keyboards available from companies like Belkin, Zagg and Logitech.
The renewable fuels standard (RFS), originally established in the Energy Act of 2005, requires an increasing amount of biofuel to be blended into gasoline sold in the United States over the coming years.
Various newspapers, magazines and even book publishers have been coming up with online versions of their products as an increasing number of readers access information on high-tech gadgets such as tablet PCs and smartphones.
This lack of regulation has allowed an increasing number of doctors of all types -- including gynecologists, general surgeons and even emergency medicine physicians -- to perform tummy tucks, liposuction, facelifts and breast enhancement.
"It was debated by the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for many years, and the indication for the use of influenza vaccine for an increasing number of groups on a piecemeal basis didn't make sense, " Schaffner said.
This perhaps accounts for some of the demand, however an increasing portion of buyers are local and institutional.
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Verizon is also slowly bringing down the prices of its LTE smartphones as an increasing number of customers adopt LTE.
These corporate players are also actively filing the coffers of standalone venture firms through an increasing number of LP relationships.
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Prostate cancer is predominantly a disease of older men, although an increasing number of cases are being diagnosed in younger men.
With an increasing number of products, Amazon is increasing its development and production costs and potentially risks confusing the customer with too many choices.
And there are plenty of other people out there gobbling up apparel of their alma maters, an increasing number of which use Under Armour.
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"The ACMD's review of harms associated with the non-medicinal use of tramadol was prompted by an increasing number of reports within the NHS of tramadol's misuse and harms, " the letter said.
"Since the introduction of the first xPrintServer product last December, I have observed a ready market for this type of printing solution, as an increasing number of business people are relying on their tablets and smart phones for work purposes, " said J.
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But there is an element of principle and dignity in what he has to say, and in an increasing number of Republican debates, his rivals for the nomination find themselves praising or agreeing with the Arizona senator on one issue or another.
In the face of an international inability to put the sort of price on carbon use that would drive its emission down, an increasing number of policy wonks, and the politicians they advise, are taking a more serious look at these other factors as possible ways of controlling climate change.
"It does not result in a fair distribution of spending, and is becoming an increasing source of tension between the nations of the UK, " he said.
Moreover, say the Deutsche economists, the expansion of higher education and the introduction of student loans has meant that an increasing proportion of these people are starting work in debt.
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