It wasn't until Tyner signed with Milestone Records in 1972 that he began achieving individual recognition, eventually becoming known as one of the all-time jazz greats in his own right.

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The crew of the Coast Guard rescue helicopter 6022, U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, with special individual recognition to rescue swimmer AST2 Sara Faulkner, (nominated by the United States of America) for rescuing, at night, all three people from the yacht Arktur.

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Where individual idea recognition and information gathering is not valued, top-down corporations give members an incentive to hide information and dissemble in order to keep the bar for performance low.

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The solution, according to Edmondson, is a teaming process that includes a deep recognition among individual players of the interdependency of their roles.

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So far these have involved only modest steps, such as turning more state land over to individual farming and official recognition that foreign investors can pay higher wages.

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What is to prevent a corporation from targeting a particular individual, using face recognition technology to assemble all uploaded videos in which he appears, and effectively constructing a surveillance record that can be used to analyze his life?

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Netanyahu and his government will have to exert unrelenting pressure on the U.S. and individual European governments to end their recognition of Hamas.

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Neither democracy nor recognition of the worth of the individual is an automatic default position for human beings.

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What they all have in common is an eagerness for political recognition that has eluded them despite their individual successes in academia, business and professions.

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Winners, determined by number of Facebook "likes" in four categories (individual, family and friends and community, support groups and facilities, or workplace) will receive recognition in several of the organization's publications.

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