Bush had made the use of public-private competitions to determine who should perform commercial functions for the government one of his key management initiatives.

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These will result partly from cutting force structure such as Army brigades, but also from decisions by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to reduce the number of military personnel performing so-called commercial functions.

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The commercial functions of the Forestry Commission would be opened up to other operators on a leasehold basis "so that their commercial potential is realised along with the need to protect other benefits".

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The Business Services segment represents the company's commercial banking functions including commercial and industrial, commercial real estate and investor real estate lending.

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But since Khomeini's death in 1989 they have increasingly forsaken their social welfare functions for straightforward commercial activities.

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Enter Commercial Lending X, which has literally reinvented processes by which lending functions are performed.

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The walls between commercial and investment banks have been demolished, Hoenig argued, and the two functions within banks are now joined at the hip.

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The fact is that adaptations of the V-22 have virtually unlimited potential to improve interurban air transport, short-haul commercial delivery, oil spill containment, forest fire-fighting, emergency relief delivery, and a host of other functions.

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