Such networks allow family members time to tinker in their workshops and sharpen their creative skills.
Private equity firms that come in and sharpen operations, as Bain did, can make a sleepy company more focused.
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This loud and crystal clear statement of intent that BP is publicly going to clean house and sharpen up its act.
Office plants have become more popular over the last 30 years, with research reinforcing the belief that they improve the atmosphere, reduce stress, and sharpen concentration.
The more services Yahoo offered, the longer its guests would stay and the more Yahoo could pry into their habits and sharpen efforts to target them.
Ryan, 42, is considered a policy wonk and conservative Catholic likely to energize the GOP base and sharpen the campaign's focus on government spending and the economy.
Automakers that aspire to tap into the coming wave of new premium car buyers from smaller cities will need to innovate their dealer formats and sharpen their digital marketing skills, the report says.
These stone tools generally consisted of sharp flakes battered off a stone core, but early hominids also did more sophisticated flaking and retouching to sharpen and straighten their blades.
The good news: There are exercises you can do at home to protect and even sharpen your sense of smell.
"Going into 2013, our team is moving ahead with new plans and actions to sharpen our approach to localized merchandise assortments and marketing, " CEO Terry Lundgren said in a statement.
The deals doubled Amgen's research staff to 4, 000, and the firm has worked to sharpen its focus and lift its output of testable drugs.
"The events of last week were deeply disturbing to everyone in the city, " and the trial has helped sharpen focus on stop and frisk, but intense negotiations among lawmakers and advocates were under way for weeks beforehand, Quinn said.
These offerings provide the opportunity for students and young alumni to explore potential career paths, sharpen networking and other "real world" skills and land interviews with employers interested in hiring alumni of their school.
As all these players are improving technology and performance to sharpen competitiveness, there is real fear at MHI that a one year delay will be severely disadvantaging in the fight for new orders.
Rensselaer faculty and students will seek to further sharpen Watson's reasoning and cognitive abilities, while broadening the volume, types, and sources of data Watson can draw upon to answer questions.
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Haier and other exporters first sharpen their skills by competing with multinationals in China, then export to developing nations and smaller economies.
Republican presidential candidates and Democratic activists alike are using the debate to sharpen their political messages and appeal to core voters.
Given these strains, and the political ramifications of food, efforts to feed the 9 billion will sharpen geopolitical conflicts and speed up shifts that are happening anyway.
However, while these reasons may be true, providing a bit more rigor and testing around whether and how stakeholders value your CSR commitments can sharpen the opportunities to create and capture value for a company.
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It continues to evolve around the edges, as scientists sharpen models and draw new links between interconnected natural systems.
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By combining monochromatic and color images to sharpen the focus of the satellite imagery, the science teams were able to then differentiate between birds, guano and shadow.
Sudan's complex political manoeuvres may indeed split the rebel alliance and broaden the government's base in the north, but they may also sharpen the division between north and south.
"We had to sharpen our thinking and not live in the past, " he says.
Most players used their school trainers for conditioning and their college coaches to sharpen their skills.
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The hard part of the tour is arriving, building up slowly and suddenly you have to sharpen up.
Put on your eye patch, sharpen your cutlass and wake up your parrot.
To tackle them, we must sharpen our action and develop innovative solutions.
"I did a lot of races leading up to the trials to sharpen me up and get me race fit, " Turtle told BBC Gloucestershire.
Plus, that extra movement jump starts your circulatory system, which will sharpen your focus and keep you on top of your game at work.
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Many universities need to sharpen their focus and alter their rhythms.
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