In my view there is a simple line running from where companies were and the processes they needed thirty years ago, to a highly externalized enterprise that carries new rules and needs new processes.

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As the community advocate of the capitalist enterprise, the customer elects the lawmakers who make the rules and regulations that determine the ways the enterprise conducts its business.

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We do not have to choose between markets that are unfettered by even modest protections against crisis, or markets that are stymied by onerous rules that suppress enterprise and innovation.

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Both have an interest in presenting business as a rational enterprise that can be reduced to rules.

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Most definitions place significant emphasis on enterprise value preservation, which largely comprises of rules, regulatory compliance, risk management, and other types of watchdog activities.

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The software knows the difference between a publicly traded partnership like Enterprise and a private one, for which the rules are slightly different.

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At the time, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lanny A. Breuer called the indictment a "devastating blow" to the organization, which he said used threats and violence -- including murder -- against those who violate its rules or pose a threat to the enterprise.

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Almost every enterprise in business is affected by at least one of these rules, from providing employee health care to labor standards.

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First of all, those rules are very inefficient, as anyone who works in enterprise sales can tell you.

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