So, obviously this is hard business and we are in a situation that's increasingly urgent.
Behind the hard business sense of what they do, there are strong overtones of Absolutely Fabulous.
Knowing that you can't fail means you don't have to make hard business choices.
And I think it's very important to start doing the hard business now.
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Now a grocery story is getting in on the act, and not just because it wants to inject its aisles with a bit of glamour--it makes cold, hard business sense.
Opening the doors to more hard core business and strategic upper level management positions will clearly unleash the talent of many Latinas today and in the future.
Acquiring Horizon, which means a work on six new nuclear plants for ten to 15 years, is such a decision, as are sale this year of the California-based hard drive business to Western Digital and spin-off of a Japan-based LCD panel business.
Its important North American routes and business have been hard hit by the collapse in business-class travel.
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The problem: Intel wants to expand beyond the PC processor business, yet that business is so sweet, it is hard to find another business that doesn't drag the rest of the company down.
Once you've started charging for empty premises in full, and apart from new business premises being built, it's hard to see how business rates revenue can be lifted, buoyantly, by economic growth.
Meanwhile, Intel has been pushing its data center business, hard, which stands to gain regardless of whether the PC business is upended by smart phones and tablets.
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Kerry's proposed increases would hit hard small-business owners, who create most of the new jobs.
The Chamber also works hard to get business-friendly state judges and attorneys-general elected.
But could careful measurement and management of sustainability also provide short-term, hard-nosed business advantages, especially when it comes to logistics?
Our friendship changed after our first, hard year of business, and, although we tried to rebuild, we never really recovered.
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Energy and sustainability strategies are about hard-core business decisions and going back to the basics of managing resources and resource use.
In his autobiography, Neuharth made no secret of his hard-nosed business tactics, such as taking advantage of a competitor's conversation he overheard.
Mr. Wu had a knack for selling hard-nosed business decisions as generosity.
Ms Colley argues that the Act of Union was a hard-nosed business deal, rather than a mystical union of the island race.
"Our members are very unhappy about the loss of choice and competition among wholesalers who do compete very hard for our business, " he said.
And farmers are ageing (the average British farmer is now well into his 50s), with few young people keen to enter a hard, uncertain business.
Many also felt Marvell was too dependent on the hard-drive business.
Bridging the gap between creativity and hard-headed business strategy is a process that, when perfected, can yield results that both inspire emotions and bloat bank accounts.
"It's hard to make business decisions in reliance on the credit when it's extended here and there over the years, " says Jones, who represents renewable industry players.
A. programs for not focusing enough on hard-core business disciplines.
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This is ideological politics and hard-nosed business, pure and simple.
We didn't know ... the father, the hard-working business owner.
Fujitsu, for example, hopes to unload its loss-making hard-disk business, but it recently took full control of a joint-venture to sell computers as part of a push into computer-related services.
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