Ultimately, most experts agree that careful selection can pay off -- but only if done right.

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What kind of careful selection process for those jobs would have produced the result of the enforcer becoming the offender?

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For years, MBA participants have been able to mould their degrees through careful selection of elective subjects covering the areas of most interest to them.

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The small, careful selection may leave you spoiled for choice.

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Through careful selection of a trustee to manage the trust for the benefit of your heir and by specifying instructions for distributions from the trust under a set of conditions that will maintain the incentive for your heir to continue to work, you will be able to exercise control over the situation long after you are gone.

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But in to be have such authority and to be named a part of the Direct Endorsement Lender group, the government asks that the lender is careful about its selection and that it carefully reviews mortgages to ensure compliance with certain rules.

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Score was careful to note, however, that increasing its tablet stock did not mean Best Buy was scaling back on its selection of other wireless gadgets.

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