With companies increasingly seeking taut but flexible global supply chains, this sluggishness is annoying.
For Mr Lammer and his like, a government for enterprise would bring not tax fiddles, but flexible labour markets.
Simple: By adopting an Open Fuel Standard that requires every new car sold in America to have not only have seat-belts and airbags but Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) capability.
The company, now with more than a hundred employees in locations such as London, New York, San Francisco, Beijing and Seoul, is making tangible but flexible bets on the future.
Governments will be sorely tempted to protect workers, but a flexible, well-educated labour force is likely to fare best in the transition.
Shop around before settling on the loan that offers not only the lowest interest rate but also flexible terms should you find that you are able to repay the debt earlier than you originally intended.
Treasury ministers want to stand firm on the principle but be flexible on the practice - examining ideas to roll over unused tax relief from one year to the next or allowing tax free lifetime legacies.
Neither of them exactly spoils its families with financial inducements or state-provided child care, but their flexible labour markets make it easy for women to get back into work after childbirth, and public opinion approves of working mothers.
Software-wise, the basic experience is almost exactly the same: intuitively simple, but still quite flexible.
His fiscal discipline turned out to be flexible but, for better or worse, Mr Osborne's seems adamantine.
But as a flexible platform, the plant bottle could find other uses.
He believes that organizations use multiple hypervisors and Brocade wants to build technology that works great with VMware but also is flexible enough to support other hypervisors.
This will require more empathy with the users, but also more flexible relationships with the developers who will help users find their own value in all of that content.
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Hacker ethics rejected a capitalistic, profit-oriented approach to work, eschewing idleness but favoring a flexible, creative approach that was respectful of the human dimension and natural rhythms, he said.
But the popularity of Tumblr and Twitter has shown that, when it comes to creating content, many writers prefer simplicity and built-in sharing to something more flexible but harder to master.
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We haggled a bit, but I found them flexible on all the important things.
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Not just buying in flexible labor but accessing precisely the skills they need for very specific tasks.
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Transport by rail costs more than by pipeline, but routing is more flexible and can begin almost immediately.
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But this is a flexible process, and we are interested in close cooperation over it with our American partners.
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But job cuts and flexible working will not be enough to safeguard the future of Longbridge, which employs 14, 000 and makes a selection of ageing models.
The methodology that Adyen applies to global payments is built entirely on next generation technologies, which makes it not only flexible, but efficient to operate and run.
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He said hospitals needed to be given time to adjust and the government needed to be flexible, but, given that leeway, added there was no reason why it should not work.
Stay flexible, but with the trend for now.
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In fact, as employees become ever more differentiated, pay may go the same way as prices: something that cannot be set centrally or uniformly, either by governments or big companies, but has to be flexible, differentiated and sensitive to local conditions.
The main difference between the more flexible economies (meaning not just America but also Britain, Canada, New Zealand and others) and less flexible ones (Germany, France, the Netherlands and others) is not in productivity or even jobs but in the distribution of income.
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