And we did away with the practice of adding pages of misleading fine print to important financial agreements.

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But U.S. Cellular moved away from the industry practice of just unilaterally charging for them, instead swapping the stick of penalties for the carrot of rewards.

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But the Conservatives say millions more could be saved by moving away from the current government practice of outsourcing IT projects to a small number of large contractors.

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The practice of subagency withered away, and disclosure rules were put into place.

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More and more parents, he says, are living away from their children and the practice of children taking care of elderly parents is fading.

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But the BHF added the current shortage of heart surgeons meant taking doctors away from practice to retrain them would have a knock-on effect on the service.

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Unlike many revolutionaries, he has seen his ideas put into practice: of moving the country away from agricultural products and tin-mining to industry.

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"That's obviously a concern, if Verizon can put together a converged service offering that starts to peel people away from cable operators, " said Mark Rowland, head of the wireless practice at IBB Consulting.

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In practice, however, around a fifth of the electorate stays away.

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Daniel Carlin has the type of practice most doctors would kill for: His patients are usually thousands of miles away.

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Increased diversification of their economies away from oil is an obvious solution but one that is hard to achieve in practice.

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