By employing a business model that functions by balancing risks against premium payments, insurance companies allow those who are able to avail themselves of their services to minimize the time (and income) they devote to concern over healthcare costs.

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The bigger issue is how the bundle strategy violates the separation of functions expressed in the MVC ( Model, View, Controller) paradigm of software design.

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Casio has redesigned the ClassPad series' software keyboard to make this new model easier to use, organizing functions to correspond to three levels of learning difficulty, beginning with basic functions used by everyone like fractions, square roots, and trigonometric functions, then advanced functions like differential calculus, complex compound numbers, and sigma calculations, and finally even more advanced calculations including piecewise and user-defined formulas.

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This model recognises the close alignment of the functions carried out by the economic regulators and the competition authorities, which primarily relate to consumer protection and facilitating markets.

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Using a finance-driven business model, BP outsourced many of its corporate functions to contractors and eliminated many of its own engineers.

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The process has worked so well that other functions of the company have used the IT methods as their model.

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Still, he has laid out plans to revert Citi back to the "silo" model, which calls for the bank's operating units to run more autonomously while supporting functions, like legal and IT, become more centralized.

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That will be the most basic model, doing the computing and word processing tasks of today's PCs as well as such functions as accessing the Internet.

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