It should come as no surprise that the agreement has such profound flaws -- both in its broad outline and in its details.

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In the speech, the president did not change the broad outline of the vision for the US space agency he first expounded in his 2011 federal budget request.

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Although the broad outline of the scheme was announced in February for RBS and in March for LBG, neither bank formally joined it, as fiercely detailed negotiations ensued.

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The broad outline of the rate hike was approved by state regulators in March to help bail out the state's two largest utilities, Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison, who have been caught in a squeeze between escalating wholesale prices and the rates they can charge customers.

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The airline industry aside, the bullet points above offer a broad strategic outline for just about any industry because the customer experience is becoming pre-eminent in each and there is simply no way to deliver world-class customer experiences unless a company can capture, manage, and analyze all of the relevant data in real-time.

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