Developing a repeatable, actionable risk management plan for your entire organization is best accomplished by creating a template that can be reused in every project.
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Soaps have forever shaped the contemporary television landscape by serving as a template upon which primetime show narrative arcs are constructed.
Using the "refined hairline grooves" of a peacock as a template, a research team led by Professor Jay Guo has found success in creating a prototype of one such high-res display by crafting nanoscale metallic grooves on silver-plated glass.
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The second stage was to transfer the gold from the stencil to a screen by pressing the template into it.
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Instead of painting their portraits by hand, he adapted a technique from commercial printing, in which a photographic image could be transferred to canvas by pushing paint through a mechanically-produced silkscreen template.
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Those built by a college or developed by third-party companies tend to be more accurate than those using a standard template from the U.S. Department of Education, says Mr. Weinerman.
"The easiest way for me to describe it is that the deal struck by the Catholic 7 did provide a template that made a lot of sense to follow, " he said.
The battle has broad implications for the way Hollywood does business, since whatever deal is struck by writers will likely be used as a template for talks with actors and directors, whose contracts expire next June.
Nuristan was handed over by Nato last year and the alliance will be hoping it is not a template for other security transfers to Afghan forces as foreign troops prepare to leave by the end of 2014.
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Informed by this finding, the authors provide a detailed template for reform.
Of course, a standard reporting template was provided by the CFO.
The groups said in a press release that they have published the FIA-ISDA Cleared Derivatives Execution Agreement as a template that can be used by participants in the cleared swaps markets in negotiating execution-related agreements with counterparties to over-the-counter derivatives that are intended to be cleared.
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By analyzing these examples it is possible to produce a template for innovation.
If successful, it is expected to serve as a template for a larger roll-out by Sierra.
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Early results from the EU Greek debt summit that was held Thursday showed a template for a new aid package to Greece was agreed upon by EU leaders.
Nevertheless, the quickly scuttled design served as an unofficial template for future phones by showing how the web and video could benefit from a large canvas.
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"There's still no business plan template for this kind of business, so it's all happening on a case-by-case basis, " Romo said.
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