While there, he also spearheaded the development of external volunteer programs to connect the medical center staff, faculty and students to the neighboring Southside community.

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For customers experiencing financial hardship, Chase may restructure loans to reduce interest rates, waive late and over-limit fees, and extend repayment terms through a variety of internal and external payment programs.

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The past four years of low interest rates, slow growth, and high unemployment have forced many companies to embark on their own internal improvement programs without external intervention by LBO sponsors.

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HUNTER-GAULT: The International Monetary Fund's Thomas Boundsgard credits the government with reigning in corruption, but says it's still heavily dependent on donor aid. 40 percent of the country's budget depends on external aid and some 80 percent of its development programs do as well.

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Though in-house programs tend to be more expensive and labor-intensive than educational partnerships or bringing in external trainers, they are usually "much more customized and tailored to your organizational needs, regardless of whether it's a very technical training or even about business negotiation, " says Donna Weiss, managing director at the Corporate Executive Board.

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Pairing the n9 with four Niveus Digital Cable Receivers, an external, dual CableCARD tuner device, allows cable subscribers to simultaneously view and record eight standard definition or HD programs.

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Beyond just these fledgling biotechs, bigger Pharma companies can benefit from having an external SAB aimed at bringing much-needed open market, objective input into the quality and robustness of internal programs.

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As a result, programs such as Excel and PowerPivot can directly access marketplace data: giving Microsoft a strong capability to integrate external data into the existing tooling of the enterprise.

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