To understand this look at the many ways companies are externalizing their key functions.

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The first in the series is Expedia, a company doing great things to externalizing its activities.

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Indeed there is a strong correlation between relative wages and opportunities for externalizing costs in a society.

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Her arias are models of compact expression, skillfully externalizing the very internal world of the story, particularly Mr. Parvin's distress.

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Regrettably, most people cannot: Folks reflexively react to errors by either externalizing blame or, more problematically, hitting themselves with self-deprecatory, ad hominem invective.

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We would prefer to hear politicians reflect our experiences, not those of big business, because even the biggest businesses are surviving by externalizing their economic activities to people like me and you.

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