Investment firms love to trumpet the importance of their financial research, and the resources they devote to it.
Malcolm Gladwell has popularized the notion that, in order to become an outstanding practitioner in a discipline, you need to devote to it roughly 10, 000 hours of practice.
Any time people devote themselves to something it can be difficult for them to step aside and let a new team in.
It happened to be a perfect storm where I was making a swing change, and I was hurt, and I couldn't devote any time to it.
While they report significant progress over the past few years, most say their organizations do not have a repeatable process for extracting value from innovation and do not devote enough resources to it compared with running day-to-day operations.
This is how many extraordinary things have evolved for our children, from parents willing to take an idea and devote the time necessary to make it happen.
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According to Praveen Atreya, director of Verizon's Innovation Program, there's just too much involved in the incubation and launch process to not devote the proper amount of manpower to it.
These developments should allow the firm to put much of its legal woes behind, and allow it to devote more attention and resources to the growing deepwater drilling business.
They understand that to win, it was time to devote new energy to how they do what they do.
He is benefiting handsomely from the national interest in his candidacy, persuading his party to devote lots of resources to a state that it recently regarded as a black hole, and starring in fund-raisers in New York and Washington.
"It is the second year of a budget crisis that has force it to devote most state funds to paying salaries and maintaining employment at the cost of both development and creating effective security forces, " Cordesman said.
One alternative is to play it safe - to say, as both Reagan and Clinton did, that the national revival they promised had indeed begun during their first term, and that they would devote their second term to seeing it through.
It is not easy for a law enforcement agency to devote substantial resources to an investigation and then not bring a case, but sound antitrust enforcement dictates that it must do so when, as happened here, the investigation failed to uncover evidence of a violation.
Following a long career in television, I took early retirement to devote myself (there's no other word for it) to writing.
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He found out about WorldVistA and Vista Expertise Network, two non-profit organizations that group hundreds of programmers willing to devote some of their time to enhance VistA, and also tailor it to non-VA hospitals and clinics.
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As we often note in such a circumstance, the company is not really required to devote any amount of resources to buy back shares, but if it feels it is in the best interest of shareholders (because the stock is too cheap) Kellogg has the ability to support its stock.
So, how difficult can it be to devote the same time and education on the issue of domestic violence?
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Either way, managers and boards of directors may find it worthwhile to devote sufficient resources to the implementation of effective environmental CSR policies.
Pointing to the U.S., she said America's position as a world leader demands that it devote full attention to empowering women to participate in the economy and society fully.
The company's flash memory unit hasn't posted an operating profit since before 2004, and it continues to devote billions of dollars toward its Itanium chip, which never lived up to original hopes.
Devote yourself to learning how to get it done given the resources you have, rather than beating yourself up for not having achieved it yet, and my guess is the goal will take care of itself.
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About five months ago, he left to devote himself to his startup and, about two months ago, officially launched it.
Each year, Americans are said to devote 5.4 billion hours to complying with the tax code, more time than it takes to produce every car, truck and van made in America.
It forced Mr McCain to devote his time and resources to defending what should have been solid Republican states, such as Georgia.
It was also proposed to devote appropriate attention to the principle of equity, basic education and training, and gender issues, involving young people and women in the process of building green economies and societies.
"Even if you did identify the 50 or 100 people who did year-2000 work, you need to devote a significant chunk of money until it becomes exorbitantly expensive, " says Jeanne Koch, a systems manager in the systems and engineering department at The Washington Post, in Washington.
It forces industry and government to devote limited resources to issues where the return is likely to be nil.
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Is it necessary for the networks to devote more than 20 hours of time offering up-to-the-minute coverage of how the fairytale unfolds?
Perhaps in his next big speech, the State of the Union, he can remember America's leadership position and devote more attention to those around the world who see it as a source of inspiration and encouragement.
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