Unlike Anonymous, which is a loosely organised collective of hackers and hacking advocates, Lulzsec was a defined group with its own specifically recruited members.

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It also means that as users react and provide feedback, the roles within the group become more defined in response to that feedback.

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The Coalition to Preserve the Defined Benefit System, a newly formed lobbying group of 57 companies, including R.

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That, in turn, made it possible to determine how long it took each group to reach a consensus, defined as concentrating more than 90% of activity around a single patch.

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After collecting information and data from a variety of additional sources, the Working Group has now concentrated its efforts on several well-defined focus areas.

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Howe defined crowdsourcing as the act of outsourcing a task to a large, undefined group of people through an open call.

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His work applied to patients with aplastic anemia has defined and improved treatments and increased the long-term survival of this patient group to greater than 90 percent.

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Even if our success is as part of a team effort, we are each unique and can never be defined by a label bestowed upon us by others or by being forced into a group or class.

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One reason for the disparity: competitiveness, as defined by a ranking of countries done annually by the World Economic Forum in Geneva (the same group that holds the high-powered Davos meeting).

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