Take away the NRSRO designation and the playing field levels out significantly: entrepreneurs pop out of the woodwork with creative ways to measure credit risk, and the market economy helps to select those new and innovative ideas which have the most merit.
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Not included are such ancillaries as ongoing lease obligations, any seismic or other geoscience disbursements, or any general and administrative burden at the field or corporate levels.
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The extra cash will go on setting up a year-round field operation to lobby all levels of government.
"It absolutely levels the playing field and is the only way to survive, " says Zaki Rakib, Terayon's chief executive.
The defection certainly levels the playing field in terms of titles released exclusively in one format or the other.
This levels the playing field against market leaders and allows for rapid growth.
Most important, the agency pricing model levels the playing field for e-book retailers.
The proponents of this rule will tell you that it levels the playing field and thus makes the market more competitive.
It also levels the playing field by ensuring that all companies in a particular industry are playing by the same rules.
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And many believe there should be a level playing field at national and international levels, to avoid abuse of power by dominant players.
This approach levels the playing field and adheres to capital market philosophy, by rewarding the most efficient companies and their shareholders with greater returns.
The SaaS model levels the playing field between growing businesses and larger competitors, by equipping SMBs with application functionality that only large enterprises previously enjoyed.
Also, I did not pay for the many bottles I am about to say it is better than, so that somewhat levels the playing field.
He also said removing the state of emergency levels the playing field, even though it will be lifted just a mere three weeks before the elections.
Where there were eight levels of management between field supervisor and company president, there are now just four.
"This levels the retail playing field, " said Evan Schnittman, vice president of global business development for Oxford University Press.
Moving from an ELO system to a competitive league system a la League of Legends should provide a competitive playing field for players of all skill levels.
The organization must increase its capacities at national levels so that its field officers can help governments throughout the world enact policies and programs that most help real people.
They have commissioned new studies that will look at the impacts of neonicotinoids on bumble bees in field conditions and to understand what levels of pesticide residues and disease in honey bees are normal.
Social media is very powerful and it levels the brand positioning playing field.
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In addition, since inventory migration reflects the popularity of our rent and return anywhere capability, we have made adjustments in our field processes to minimize the impact of higher levels of migration on overall rentals.
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Strength of field ratings based on the participating players' skill levels would be more equitable, they argue.
New forms of cooperation and consultation in the field of PES at the national, regional and international levels.
Most of the growing job opportunities are at the non-specialist, or unskilled, end of the field, though they run the full gamut of wage levels.
Some rivals argue AstraZeneca should have done a better job narrowing the field of trial patients by first testing tumors for EGFR levels and admitting only those with elevated levels of the protein.
The result, according to one source, was that more power was placed in the hands of field leadership so that advisors have to deal with fewer levels of bureaucracy when reaching the point of sale.
The four classes of extremes -- high heat, heavy precipitation and floods, duration and intensity of droughts and extremes related to higher sea levels -- have changed in the last 50 years, Field said.
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In 35 years the field of fiscal sponsorship has evolved to include a variety of structural approaches that determine levels of service from, integration with, and financial relationship with the sponsoring organization.
Mr Bush's trade negotiator, Robert Zoellick, argues nevertheless that America is ready to slash subsidies if those countries with higher levels of support cut back proportionately more, to produce a level playing field.
Beyond on-field exploits, we should pay attention to the business of college sports at its highest levels.
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