To summarise: the upheaval for almost the entire British banking industry would be immense, if retail banking is defined narrowly, and would be restricted to Barclays and RBS (and to an extent HSBC), if retail banking is defined broadly.
If we defined a job as any routine activity for which we earn income paid by an entity whose activities are socially valuable, then we would most certainly be excluding things done by BOTH the private and public sectors.
If the defined benefit pensions that remain in the private sector are to pay out their obligations without taxpayers getting soaked, pension insurance premiums need to be liberalized to reflect the real risks they face, as signaled by real prices communicated through a free market.
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It is harder if you have defined the values, the strategies and you communicate them in a specific way, you give them the tools to adapt.
If glamour is defined as working on something you are passionate about, looking forward to Mondays, and truly enjoying your job, then yes, Silicon Valley is glamorous.
If glamour is defined as Hollywood-like glitz, red carpets, living life in the fast lane and throwing dollars out of your car, then no, it is far from glamorous.
If inflation is defined as a fall in the value of money then the price of future consumption matters as much as the price of goods and services consumed today.
It's easier to say "no" if you've defined expectations early in your tenure.
It was not until the Coinage Act of 1873 that the dollar became practically, if not legally, defined solely in terms of gold.
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Clients are investing in risk management to understand and control their business to see if traders are following defined processes that have been put in place.
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If prior contributions to defined-benefit pension plans earn a lower investment return than the state and federal regulators governing these plans had assumed they would, taxpayers must make up the difference.
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Lander and his colleagues say evolution's lab book points to only 30, 000 genes--if a gene is defined as a stretch of DNA that codes for one of the proteins from which the body is built.
If these species are not defined by interfertility, which obviously they are not, are they real, or just the convenient conventions of taxonomists?
The IPAB is to be composed of 15 appointed officials who will have the authority to make cuts in Medicare payments if per capita spending exceeds defined targeted rates.
If the problem can be defined as lack of clarity about where collaboration ends and cheating begins, the solution lies with open, university-wide dialogue to define and stabilize the middle ground.
If Sartre thought that man was defined by his actions, Lanzmann was, in the most concrete way, a man of action.
Historically, Nokia has been defined as much (if not more) by its platforms than by its hardware, which lacks Samsung's capability for end-to-end in-house sourcing.
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If best execution were too stringently defined, managers would have to worry about the legal consequences of subsequently discovering a transaction could have been executed more cheaply or by other means.
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Brad Anderson's "Next Stop Wonderland, " which is getting a split decision from yours truly (half a thumb up, if you crave an ill-defined generalization), is cute, no doubt about it, but in annoying ways that are fast becoming the calling card of the format.
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But if you believe that alcoholism is defined by a preoccupation with drinking, a steady increase in the amount you need to drink in order to get the same effect, and an inability to give it up -- and most in the medical profession do -- then more and more women fit the profile quite nicely, though often come to the realization on their own.
This demand would not exist if the value of the dollar were defined in terms of gold.
The company its ability to the NOLs can be negatively affected if there is an ownership change as defined by IRS rules.
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If we migrate Medicare over to a defined-contribution system, with the popular Medicare Advantage program as the backbone, we can get a lot closer to making sure that Medicare is still around when the next generation retires.
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However, it still might be a dinosaur if it does not have a well-defined place in your overall marketing and social media strategy.
There was also the caveat that more of this could be in the works if unemployment stays high and inflation (as defined by core CPI) stays low.
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Universities had their own assessment procedures, she suggested, and if exam results were to be more precisely defined, percentages could be used, without having to further confuse the exam system.
But if those changes failed to occur within the defined period, a so-called "trigger" would provide for creating a public option to force change on the insurance companies, the source said.
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But if it were that simple, mothers would be defined by those things alone.
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