Good data underlies the ability of managers to improve operations, innovators to devise better solutions, and funders to reward superior performance, and good data is hard to come by in the nonprofit sphere.

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But it seems musicians are still flexing their muscles in the political sphere, only the protest comes dressed in different clothes, with a new hard-nosed approach that matches the nous of politicians.

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But to the French, who fought hard-won battles against authoritarian clericalism, it stems from a secular wish to keep religion in the private sphere.

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