• For millennia, there have been four basic elements of the relationship between a customer and a business: The product, the buying decision, control of information and word-of-mouth.

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  • The ambulance service said conversations "between the hospital and both staff at the scene and staff in the control room" did not delay the departure and the decision to go to the Stoke-on-Trent hospital was taken before the child was put in the ambulance.

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  • These include bulky waste collection and pest control, but a decision on a 230% rise in allotment charges has been postponed.

    BBC: Gateshead Flower Show axed in council budget cuts

  • "Vaccines save lives, " countered Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after the Poling decision was announced in March.

    CNN: Vaccine-autism question divides parents, scientists

  • In other words, if we take information, parse it (albeit subjectively) and then make a financial decision, we now have control over our financial success and destiny.

    FORBES: Making Sense of Financial Data

  • The strategic sectors that fall under the decision and exclusive control of the state are those that play a crucial role in influencing the economy, society and the environment.

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  • Establishing a wholly-owned company in China where a company has complete control of the decision-making process and does not have to deal with a Chinese partner can be very tempting.

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  • "I think it's important for the United States to be less at the mercy of foreign countries and their decision-making and politics, and more under our own control to address these problems, " Abraham said, two days after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to cut oil output by a million barrels a day.

    CNN: Bush: No 'short-term fixes' to energy woes

  • Reports have been sent to the Uefa Control and Disciplinary Body, who will make a decision on Thursday, 20 March.

    BBC: Bolton & Atletico face Uefa probe

  • Devices that are "good smart" leave us in complete control of the situation and seek to enhance our decision-making by providing more information.

    WSJ: Are Smart Gadgets Making Us Dumb?

  • As an example, today, a hospital can easily develop better patient information management that gives better control over the dissemination of patient data and expediting decision-making.

    FORBES: Health, Technology and the Forgotten Stepchild of Innovation

  • He said some regions of the brain - including parts responsible for decision-making and impulse control - are not fully mature "until at least the age of 20".

    BBC: Age of criminal responsibility 'too low', experts say

  • Gammer was always in control against the Steeds and easily won the judges' decision 120-108, 118-110, 118-110.

    BBC: SPORT | Boxing | Gammer seeking bigger challenges

  • Defined as freedom to make choices in the workplace and be accountable for them, autonomy may include on-the-job decision-making latitude, control over your work schedule or the freedom to elect how and where to work.

    FORBES: The Best Jobs For Women In 2013

  • When you compare the brain scans of a group of troubled kids who are not doing very well, including spending too much time online, to normal, healthy kids you find differences in areas of the brain implicated in decision-making, self-control, and emotional regulation.

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  • The subconscious mind is a more powerful control force than the conscious mind, and when it comes to decision making what exists in our subconscious often controls us more than logic and reason.

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  • We thought it was vital to see this pristine wilderness for ourselves--and to share what we saw with the world--before the upcoming debate (and decision later this year) on how to control development there.

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  • The Nuclear Posture Review proposes that we consider a series of options that extend presidential decision-making time, by strengthening command and control apparatus around those nuclear weapons, and that we open discussions with Russia to reduce the possibility of either an accidental launch or a false detection of a launch.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefings

  • This experiment emphasises the democratisation of financial decision-making - giving every community access to and control over public banks.

    BBC: Alternative views of the economic crisis

  • Houghton's decision in May to re-establish control of the club, and make the move to bring the club out of administration appeared to be the end of the tale.

    BBC: Singh set to seal Quakers control

  • Arguably that has happened already, thanks to its recision of gun control in Washington, DC and Chicago in 2008 and 2010, and to its decision in 2010 to scrap limits on corporate (and trade-union) donations to political-action groups.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • Gordon Brown's New Deal, his Working Families Tax Credit and perhaps even his decision to give the Bank of England independent control of monetary policy owe a good deal to ideas the chancellor and his economic adviser, Ed Balls, picked up and kicked about in Washington and Harvard.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • But his support of Lord Heseltine's call for control of billions of pounds of government and European growth funding to be devolved to local decision-makers, piloted by the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership, will not cost Mr Osborne a penny.

    BBC: Budget 2013: Osborne swaps hair shirt for straitjacket

  • The firm had resurrected the historic brand in response to the decision by German rivals BMW to take control of the Rolls Royce marque, and Volkswagen's acquisition of Bentley.

    BBC: Daimler to axe luxury cars subsidiary Maybach

  • "However, there are a range of factors we need to consider in making a decision on badger control, including public opinion, scientific evidence, animal health and the impact on farming communities, " he said.

    BBC: UK public opposed to badger cull, opinion poll suggests

  • Mr Mitchell thinks patients feel more in control of their conditions if a doctor gives them a range of options and involves them in the decision as to which is the most appropriate for them.

    BBC: Photo of hip x-ray

  • Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said the court's decision was "a further blow to the government's illiberal control orders regime" and called for them to scrapped.

    BBC: High Court revokes control order

  • The first answer is that, in principle, to give such powers to Parliament or an officer of Parliament would be strange: the very point of the powers is to control parliamentary excesses, and to arbitrate in the event that Parliament is itself unable to come to a decision.

    ECONOMIST: The monarchy

  • Santorum advisers including Gidley said the final decision to suspend the campaign, which allows him to continue raising money and probably keep control of delegates won so far, came Monday night and was based on three factors.

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  • Will he, as Deputy Secretary of State, recuse himself from future decision-making on this and similar East-West technology transfer cases as well as export control policy issues?

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