Man is as much a rule-following animal as a purpose-seeking one.
When I treated the interview more as a conversation with a purpose than as a sterile interrogation, the tone of the exchange softened.
After all, what would justify suddenly standing firm for decreased spending after he has instructed everyone all these years that it is right to yield on fundamentals for piecemeal results, which Kristol always finds a way to portray as a greater purpose?
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As a sophisticated player in a technology infrastructure company, he realizes that the number of companies that will buy Hadoop and run it as a general purpose infrastructure is much smaller than the number companies who will buy it to run applications for specific purposes.
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FPGAs is as a general-purpose glue that sticks together several different components, such as a microprocessor and its attendant chips, inside a particular device.
It will reopen next year after decades of decay as a multi-purpose venue incorporating a restaurant, heritage centre and luxury accommodation.
Ideally, truly being part of a shared purpose as a group or community requires your agreement of all three.
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The inflated loss estimates make NBA owners look less wealthy than they really are, and serve a dual purpose as a bargaining strategy and public relations ploy.
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Everything that occurs in a social enterprise framework, such as giving your employees a sense of shared purpose and experience, should have as its end point a better customer experience.
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Our organization, Team Rubicon, uses continued service through disaster response as a means to maintain purpose, community, and a sense-of-self.
For one, under a gold standard money would serve its sole purpose as a unit of exchange, and for doing so would unleash very impressive growth.
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Its chief executive, Jean-Bernard Levy, says it will exploit the internet to distribute its content, but not as a general-purpose advertising medium.
On top of that, the description of the Apple TV as the "next-generation Mac Mini" strikes us as a little odd, since the Mini was never sold as a media extender (even though you can use it that way) and the Apple TV was never sold as a general-purpose computer (even though you can use it that way).
Now, lots of companies have a brand purpose, as they should, but not a whole lot of companies have identified such a simple way to bring this purpose to life in such a personal and tangible way.
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With coal gone, he says, Barnsley has to find a different purpose as a market town, which it has been since the 13th century.
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Money should be used for a proper economic purpose and not treated as a commodity on which a return can be made by reference to time.
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It will no doubt fulfill its purpose as a telegenic symbol during the Games.
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Billed as "protection with a purpose, " Canopy's Sensus case aims to do just that.
Almost a third of all marriages involving a Hispanic or Asian partner cross racial lines (counting Hispanics as a race for this purpose).
Over those years, the relevance of Purpose as a purchase factor has risen 26 percent globally. 47% of consumers have bought a brand at least monthly that supports a cause.
The muddled income-tax system, you see, and this week's garbled changes to it, are a subterfuge: not so much prudence for a purpose as complexity for the cause, ho ho.
Still, the pad itself has just the right amount of friction, and already responds well to those Win 8 gestures, so we feel it has potential as a more all-purpose navigation device once Lenovo fixes the drivers.
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He attacked business as a corrupt discipline, the sole purpose of which was to instill in people a desire to buy.
The plaintiff, Abdullah Al-Kidd, alleges that prosecutors never had any intention of calling him as a witness and submitted a false affidavit for the purpose of persuading a federal magistrate to issue a material witness warrant.
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The key thing as a CEO is being clear on the purpose, articulating it constantly and in a compelling way, then delivering on it.
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Water features have a practical purpose as well: They mask unpleasant sounds like traffic or noisy neighbors.
Before public arguments and private conferences, where decisions are discussed, they all shake hands as a show of harmony of purpose.
Reasons were not given in the lawsuit, but it's possible the IRS simply viewed the arrangement as a classic endorsement deal without a compelling tax-exempt purpose.
Mr. Gingrich was recommended to West Georgia as a dynamic young academic "with a single-minded purpose in life: to become a fine teacher-scholar, " wrote Charles P.
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The spiritual mission helped doom the enclave's material prosperity, when the Jesuits' spreading influence finally prompted Japan to shutter itself from the world by the early 1640s. (The Dutch cut off trade from the other direction by seizing Malacca in 1641.) But over the next century the effort gave Macau a purpose, as a center of learning and a bridge to the Middle Kingdom.
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