Yet even stronger medicine would be required if Greece left the euro.

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All too frequently such results included downsizing by the thousands, with few survivors left to deal with even greater complexity, brought about by redesigned yet overengineered business processes.

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Even the most thorough analysis, though, left the markets with three very important, yet unanswered questions: When?

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Yet, after months of hard work, the innovation train had not even left the station, much less reached its destination.

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Talent wars on the startup-centric coasts have left tech-savvy employees in high-demand, yet the unemployment rate remains dismally high, even in those areas.

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But the ballad 'Easy Living' suggests how Brown still had development left in him: graciously done, but not moving or even especially feelingful, it hints at areas he had yet to master.

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