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.
And now under proposed new rules of the Prevention and Significant Deterioration program, EPA has expanded its regulatory reach way beyond mobile emissions authorized by the 2007 Supreme Court decision to control permitting of stationary sources as well.
He said the brain areas involved, which control decision making such as how to consciously move the body, might be important.
Games publishers initially resented Microsoft's decision to centralise control of Xbox Live, in which Microsoft acts as a matchmaker between players.
The Argentine government's recent decision to grab control of the country's largest oil firm, YPF, will scare off the foreign investment its shale industry needs.
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This election will test whether there is a political price to be paid for the economically impeccable decision to hand control of monetary policy to an independent central bank.
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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.
"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.
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It was the British decision to transfer control over Latrun - with its command over the road below - to the Jordan Legion, that all but guaranteed the fall of Jerusalem by preventing reinforcements from aiding its undermanned defenders.
Jack Keane, then the Army's deputy chief of staff, told the historians of his reaction to a June 2003 decision to transfer control of all coalition troops away from the land forces command that had been preparing for the mission.
The decision to put Mission Control in Houston back in 1961 kick-started that city's non-oil economy.
Ditto if some family members regret their decision now to hand over control to News Corp.
This is not an environment conducive to the kind of quick decision-making necessary to control oil prices.
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.
Ms Hewitt has said that while the myth that ministers control every local decision persists, her department had "already taken significant steps towards creating an independent, self-improving NHS".
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".
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.
This would be all the more galling for Mr George since his job has recently become a lot more interesting, following the government's decision to hand the Bank control of interest rates.
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.
As it has always been, the Customer continues to retain control of the buying decision.
Hence Mr Brown's decision in May 1997 to hand control of interest rates to the Bank of England.
The new chief executive of Edinburgh City Council, Sue Bruce, took the decision to end Tie's control of the project.
These include bulky waste collection and pest control, but a decision on a 230% rise in allotment charges has been postponed.
Mr McIntyre's barrister, David Scoffield QC, disputed suggestions that his client would not be in danger because the decision to disclose out of his control.
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But Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said the police's decision to change their tactics helped control the disorder.
The good news is that the FAA has delayed to June the decision to close 149 air traffic control towers at general aviation airports around the country.
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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.
The 10, 500 longshoremen who control the west coast ports, furious about the Taft-Hartley decision, are now all the more determined to hold out for union control over jobs created by new technology at the ports (a key issue in the dispute).
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.
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.
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