Using Interop as a highly unscientific, purely anecdotal gauge of how the economy is trending, things are looking up.

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Taking a purely financial approach, Gartner Group examined how many extra hours per week workers on various salaries would have to work to recoup the extra cost of deploying notebooks.

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The particular area in which such people make their mark might be determined purely by the kind of environment or skill to which they were exposed and how hard they then applied themselves.

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Perjury about a purely private matter should at the very least lead this body to question whether no matter how seriously we take the person's violation, for example, of the witness's oath, the drastic remedy of removal from office is the proper response.

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But when concerns with those kinds of statements could no longer be ignored, DOD responded by issuing a narrowly focused, technocratic, and purely defensive position that fails to demonstrate any serious thinking about the nature of cyberpower and how it relates to the other elements of military and national power.

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As cyber security moves from a purely technical issue to a major business concern, CIOs are faced with the thorny problem of how to best protect their company without over-spending on security.

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CEOs (in my experience) tend to over-focus on the financial, due diligence and purely logistical aspects of big transitions like this, and under-focus on the people involved, and how to help them through the transition with the least amount of disruption and disaffection possible.

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