• That said, I do not expect Ofcom to launch an enquiry into this "fit-and-proper" question immediately.

    BBC: Scandal could influence Ofcom over News Corp's BSkyB bid

  • It said the new facility would provide a fit-for-purpose working environment for its staff.

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  • The CODA Sedan is very ordinary looking, with a very conservative exterior design and so-so levels of fit-and-finish inside and out.

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  • It's a custom fit -- the question is, what took so long?

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  • The 29-year-old impressed against the world champions on the summer tour, but fit-again Sale and Lions scrum-half Dwayne Peel was expected to start.

    BBC: Cooper gets Wales nod over Peel

  • Al Fahim, 32, agreed to buy Pompey from Alexandre Gaydamak in May and became chairman in July, after passing the Premier League's fit-and-proper-person test.

    BBC: Al Fahim has high hopes for Pompey

  • This showed that the qualifications are considered to be largely fit-for-purpose but that there were some structural changes that could be made to improve them.

    BBC: Education & Family

  • Ofcom does have the power to determine whether News Corp is a fit-and-proper owner of all of BSkyB, or even its current holding of 39%.

    BBC: News Corp may face fit-and-proper test

  • Though many of the changes here amount to stability improvements or fit-and-finish tweaks, the Metro version of IE has actually benefited from an honest-to-goodness new feature.

    ENGADGET: Windows 8 Release Preview detailed impressions

  • All of this makes for some fairly comfortable mousing options, but as with most one-size-fit-all products (also see: baseball caps) you may not find an exact match.

    ENGADGET: Exclusive: Mad Catz Cyborg Rat 9 review

  • Americans could use this money as they see fit--to help meet their monthly bills, cover higher costs at the gas pump or pay for other basic necessities.

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  • Exciting new strategies and approaches have streamlined data logging, encouraged fit-for-purpose engineering, and bred innovative financing strategies aimed towards developing the untapped resource in the built environment.

    FORBES: Log Baby Log: The Race to The Big New Resource Play You Haven't Heard Of

  • But the DWP defended the assessments, which are part of the UK government's welfare reforms, and said nationally only 15% of all fit-for-work decisions are overturned on appeal.

    BBC: News

  • The Supreme Court ruled that Granville -- and by extension, all fit parents -- have the final say in child-rearing decisions, such as who visits their children and for how long.

    CNN: The Troxels and some of their grandchildren

  • The truth is, the one-size-fit-all interest rate doesn't fit.

    BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | Interview with Lords Brittan & Lamont

  • As our mission states, I want every student across the country, regardless of economic status or zip code, to have the information and guidance necessary to enroll in their best-fit four-year college.

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  • Virgin Atlantic also said victims would not be allowed to board one of its planes without a fit-to-fly certificate from their doctor or a hospital, though there had been no cases yet.

    CNN: Airlines stop swine flu victims flying

  • It's perhaps a desire to emulate the likes of Bordeaux -- as well as a desire to keep fit -- that motivates young Senegalese men to work out on the beaches of Dakar.

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  • MPs have previously considered introducing a fit-to-drive test.

    BBC: Mobility scooter 'danger' campaign goes to Downing Street

  • Along the way, he is giving every job a score (with a high mark of 100) for factors like skill, enjoyment and prospects, then tallying them up at the end to decide his best fit--a taste test to his career, if you will.

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  • For Mr Hunt to suggest that News Corp might not be a fit-and-proper owner of anything is a pretty big shift from the prevailing - and some would say fawning - attitudes towards Mr Murdoch we've witnessed from British governments in recent years.

    BBC: Murdoch faces new obstacle to Sky takeover

  • One-size-does-not-fit-all in the business world.

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  • Facebook, however, takes the view that the information customers necessarily divulge in the course of using Facebook becomes Facebook's property to use as Facebook sees fit -- unless of course the customer affirmatively opts out by ticking the correct boxes in Facebook's notoriously confusing and repeatedly changing privacy settings.

    CNN: Facebook needs to earn your trust

  • Second, News Corp probably doesn't want to spark the inevitable furore of protest from its critics - and the increased pressure on the regulator Ofcom to determine whether it is a fit-and-proper owner of BSkyB - that would follow if its stake in BSkyB were to go above 40%.

    BBC: Shift in balance of power between Sky and Murdochs

  • The back of the lead bus in the McCain convoy is always crammed with as many of reporters as will fit -- some hunched over on ledges, others squeezed shoulder-to-shoulder in bench seats -- as the Arizona senator conducts free-ranging conversations that has come to be a campaign trademark.

    CNN: Life on the Straight Talk Express: All McCain, all of the time

  • The second question is whether the closure of the News of the World will be seen by the media regulator, Ofcom, as making News Corporation, parent company of News International, a more or less fit-and-proper owner of British Sky Broadcasting, the UK's biggest television business (it is Ofcom's statutory duty to adjudicate on that important issue).

    BBC: Big questions for News International

  • Update, 15:55: I was fascinated that in the House of Lords debate today, Lord Puttnam said that he believed Jeremy Hunt as culture secretary could intervene to block News Corporation's bid to own all of BSkyB, on the grounds News Corp would not be a "fit-and-proper" owner (in the light of the recent revelations about conduct at the News of the World).

    BBC: Opposition mounts to News Corp's bid for BSkyB

  • There is also a potential conflict of interest for James Murdoch, were he to remain chairman of BSkyB, in that Ofcom, the media regulator, has said that it may have to review whether BSkyB is a fit-and-proper holder of a broadcasting licence, in the light of the disclosures of alleged systematic malpractices at the News of the World, the Sunday tabloid closed by News International eight days ago.

    BBC: BSkyB: Decision expected on James Murdoch's role

  • The other surprise, a small presentation also at MILK Studios, was a label called Calla characterized by bold prints in geometric in neon yellow and purple. (It also smelled like a rose-filled winter garden inside, courtesy olfactory branding company 12.29.) The silk-screened slim-fit pants, cute above-the-knee dresses, and thick PVC heels worked well together with tiny T-shirt-cut tops and softly angled jackets.

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  • The result of this is that no-fault lack-of-fit between an employee and the first manager, team, or project is likely to lead either to termination or stagnation (which are fast and slow varieties of the same thing).

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