Giordano has also been able to get affordable versions of the latest street-culture-inspired styles from the idea phase to store shelves at an amazing speed - mostly by pushing suppliers to meet strict timetables and moving production closer to the stores.

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The best decisions typically had a consideration phase, then some down time to let the idea settle and finally a decision phase.

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You have an idea for the next phase of your career.

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According to NASA spokesman Ken Davidian, the space agency spends huge sums in the trial and error phase of testing an idea.

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Their idea is already apparently moving beyond the speculation phase.

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The last time she went through the I-need-to-get-a-job phase, she came up with a new idea.

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In response to this idea, Dr Kravchenko and his colleagues have proposed that a liquid-like phase of the electrons may explain their observations.

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But Defence Secretary Mr Hammond said he rejected the idea that people had been treated unfairly and said the committee had only looked at the first phase of redundancies - in which enough civil servants had volunteered that the MoD had not had to resort to compulsory job losses.

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That said, one of the things New Directions does that we really like is point out that while the idea of taking control of your working life can be initially unsettling, you come to this new phase with far more skills than you initially may have thought.

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