Cispa dismisses it entirely, for the core activities of the newly proposed powers under the bill.
Given their claim that they want to concentrate on their core activities it does seem a fair enough decision.
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Asking pupils to pay fees for core activities or classes seems much worse.
Sixty percent of financial executives interviewed by IBM favored outsourcing non-core activities, up from just 30 percent in previous years.
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This and scores of other stories beg the question, then, who is benefiting primarily and most from the core activities of the financial industry?
For the same reason, he argues, the risk inherent in commercial banks' proprietary trading activities is not warranted and should not be backstopped by the safety net provided to ensure deposit-taking institutions' core activities.
For example, in the case of a failing banking group, regulators could sell off its core activities - thereby maintaining continuity for depositors - while allowing the rest of the organisation to go through a bankruptcy process.
Vion said the decision would allow it to concentrate on its core processing activities in Germany and the Netherlands.
Moreover, in a move to optimize its capital allocation and concentrate on core business activities, Dean Foods intends to exit underperforming businesses.
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It says sponsorship is subject to a 1% limit of the force's total annual income, and the acceptance of sponsorship for non-core police activities is intended to extend and enhance the force's service to the community.
For now, only a handful of smaller players nationwide is choosing to embed sustainability into the very DNA of what they do, incorporating environmental intelligence into core business activities with no trade-off in price or quality.
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The only human activities in the core area are sightseeing and visits to the Woljong Temple, an old historic relic.
"It sounds too much like a further widening of the BBC's activities beyond its core remit, for which the licence-payer will have to pick up the bill, " she said.
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Yet the real reason for fading fads is not that executives have built into their everyday activities such now-familiar ideas as core competences and total-quality management.
"Quad-core processors offer much faster performance for graphics-intensive activities such as high-definition video playback and high-end gaming as well as enabling the phone to handle multitasking with less effect on the user experience, " said Daniel Gleeson, a research analyst for IHS Screen Digest.
But I think the fundamental argument, which is perfectly sound and perfectly in keeping with both the white paper and the House bill, that we want to try to get banks back to the core function of relating to clients and not taking excess risky activities in the financial system.
For example, in the Dominican Republic, following the proclamation of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Congos of Villa Mella, which organises socio-religious ceremonies stemming from African-American culture, threats have disappeared: the plan to build a road that would have cut in half the village of Mata Los Indios, the community's core, has been abandoned, and the confraternity's activities have become more famous than ever (via CD-Rom, participation in events, etc.).
At its core it pledges the notion that the informal economy is made up of marginal activities that are distinct and largely unrelated to the formal sector.
The core area and buffer zone have only light infrastructure dedicated to research, public use, institutional events and surveillance activities.
It also needs a good grasp of the firm's core competence: in this instance, knowing lots about yeast, a common factor in all of Kikkoman's activities.
With modern bank holding companies engaged in both the securities business and the commercial banking business (at its core taking deposits and making loans), how are the regulators going to mesh these laws together in their regulatory activities?
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