There seems to be a broader strategy, though, at IBM to introduce a more liquid, or what we would call, elastic, labor policy and the Liquid Challenge is an instance of this.
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Qasr Al Sarab is in the Liwa Desert, in a region evocatively called the Empty Quarter, and the name is not an instance of poetic license.
An instance is a member of a single project and cannot be shared across projects.
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Again, this is an instance in which years of under-investment and natural wear and tear on building equipment may be reversed through this fast-expiring tax program.
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An alien bug that causes diarrhoea, for instance, is as much an enemy of the microbiome as of the host.
It is merely a matter of applying an agreed-upon set of rules (for instance, that any thing is equal to itself, or that if something is true for all members of a set of objects, it is true for any one specific object) to a set of agreed-upon structures, such as sets of objects.
Is the slump in July sales just an anomaly, for instance, or is it part of a larger trend?
Vinepeek.com, for instance, is an addictive stream of random Vines playing one after the other.
Nomura, for instance, is trying to turn its salesforce into an army of financial planners, along Merrill Lynch lines.
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For instance, there is talk about the establishment of an independent bank regulator.
The White House, for instance, is proposing 81 new tax increases, an average of one new levy every four days.
So the unusually high French savings rate, for instance, is not an opportunity for the economy but evidence of French fear for the future.
The real problem with vouchers, for instance, is that they create an even more inequitable distribution of education dollars and, by extension, access to informational resources.
Argentina's star Facundo Pieres, for instance, is an ambassador for whisky brand Royal Salute, sponsor of the World Polo Series.
Axel Springer's Welt Kompakt, for instance, is a condensed version of Die Welt, not an exact copy.
For instance, if the underwriting department of an insurance company is delivered internally as a web service, it could easily be outsourced or, more likely, offered as a service to others.
At Sara Lee, for instance, Paul Simmons, an ex-army officer, is in charge of food sales to the armed forces.
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For instance, the size (or quantum) of pay is rightly an issue of public debate, but to assume that executives are solely aiming to maximise their total reward is a mistake.
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For instance, the company is currently assembling a list of certified businesses to create an alert system that distinguishes between phishing sites and legitimate sites.
So far it does not seem to be working, because Mr Ensign is on the whole fairly moderate: he avoids talk of an enormous tax cut, for instance, preferring to cut the national debt.
Though Ubisoft has been a very public supporter of the Wii U and its capabilities (ZombiU is an Ubisoft game, for instance), this is a very public poke in the eye which could have helped to spur sales of a system that is by all accounts struggling.
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In the first case, the best, most reliable indicator of how an investor will behave (for instance, in volatile markets) is his past behavior.
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This week, for instance, Honda is introducing a redesigned version of its Accord mid-size sedan with an infotainment system that pipes Facebook into the car.
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Some of this is fairly straightforward: Every survey respondent who currently drives an Audi, for instance, and is considering buying another one boosts the Brand Satisfaction score for Audi.
For the overwhelming majority of them collecting is a satisfying outlet for an array of useful, even creative impulses a search for beauty, for instance, or a desire to preserve history.
Existing models are based on indirect measures of how infectious an animal is a cow with high levels of the virus in its blood, for instance, is assumed to be able to infect other animals.
Smoking kills around 430, 000 Americans a year, but in many cases the link with death is hard to prove: for instance, a smoker who dies of heart disease may also be an overeater (or drinker).
Earlier this month, for instance, Assange wrote an essay in the British magazine New Statesman, arguing that WikiLeaks is only part of a long media tradition.
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For instance, the reduction in the weighting of Wal-Mart, an American retail giant, is likely to undermine the entire American retail sector.
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