His success was due partly to his grasp of detail, partly to his skill at consensus-building among competing groups.
Similarly, corporate leaders must also manage the interests of often competing groups such as managers, employees, unions, board members, and creditors, while theoretically acting in the best interest of shareholders.
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Then two competing groups of scientists--one working for the government and one in the private sector--stopped feuding and announced the first mapping of the human DNA sequence in June 2000 at the White House.
Two competing groups have found a genetic quirk on chromosome 9 that boosts your risk of having a heart attack by 40% to 60%, if you inherited the gene from both your mother and father.
In recent weeks two competing working groups, one in Warsaw, the other in Gdansk, have put the finishing touches to draft codes of best practice.
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Mr Clinton's health-care plan was a prime example of trying, with maximum hubris and a tangle of competing working groups, to force legislation through the teeth of Congress.
The UN operation (Monusco) is supporting Congolese army operations against rebel groups competing for control of mineral wealth in lawless areas of the country.
Indeed, as the burning-hot summer holiday begins (parliament is about to go into recess), to be followed by the fasting month of Ramadan that will last throughout September, there is a worrying risk that the politicians will again muff their chance to make a breakthrough towards a real accommodation between Iraq's competing sects and groups.
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Kirkuk, about 290 kilometers (180 miles) from Baghdad, is home to a mix of ethnic groups with competing claims to the oil-rich region.
Election authorities suspended voting an hour early at nine polls in the southern state of Chiapas Sunday after clashes between political groups backing competing candidates for mayor in the town of Rincon Chamula.
Today corporations face a world of fragmented special interest groups and communities all making competing and even contradictory demands on business.
They have to coordinate with a range of stakeholders, including rate payers, special interest groups and residents, who often have competing interests.
We must respond to what we have in common and identify where our needs and goals we intersect so that we may move forward in a collaborative and mutually supportive way, instead of competing in a fight for attention and resources as individual groups and diseases.
Competing with him for the eyes of passers-by are charity groups and homeless people seeking donations.
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Mr Villaraigosa used to be speaker of the state assembly, but he has been back in his home town campaigning for almost a year, competing with Mr Hahn for endorsements from environmentalists, women's groups and, especially, unions (all of whom tend to vote).
In team competitions, groups of three compete against each other, with a fencer from each team competing in bouts of up to three minutes.
Already in December Sedat Nuri Kayis, chairman of the state broadcasting watchdog, had revealed to a parliamentary commission that the large media holdings repeatedly break laws that ban groups with more than a 10% stake in radio and television stations from competing in government tenders.
This is the laudable goal of competing Web sites Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, as well as of a number of other groups that are attempting to create personal health records on the Web.
Harvard was selected to run the project, officials of both groups said, because of its ability to assemble experts from disparate fields and often competing institutions within and outside the university to address a broad number of problems affecting players beyond brain or joint issues.
Two of the school's Enterprise Enrichment Groups (Skinners' International and The Fred Ice Fundraising Group) were challenged to set up two competing businesses and sell their products at break time.
The same goes for armed groups, which have a record of shifting their goals, splintering, trading with each other, and competing - sometimes encouraged by local intelligence services.
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