• In the early 1990s they had devised a way for businesses and other organizations to measure nonfinancial performance--customer perception, for example, or a company's ability to foster knowledge within its work force--and measure talent it wanted to keep or promote.

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  • Poets must be well-versed in the Greek Cypriot dialect, possess adequate knowledge of the popular poetry of Cyprus and the ability to retrieve existing, well-known Tsiattista and, above all, must be able to improvise a new couplet on a specific theme within very strict time constraints and be able to respond to his or her opponent.

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  • Many of the qualities that attracted Sagnier to Chabrol are similar to those that draw her on-screen alter-ego Gabrielle to writer Charles Saint-Denis (Francois Berleand) -- Charles' knowledge of life, literature and his ability to treat her like a little girl, not as an equal.

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  • "For a two-year-old child to remain calm and have the knowledge and ability to dial 999 is remarkable, " he said.

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  • "Stem cell research has the potential to act as the key which opens the door to many advances in our knowledge and our ability to treat some of the most heart-rending conditions that are presently untreatable, " said the Aberdeen South MP, who suffers from a genetic condition called Gaucher's disease which results in brittle bones.

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  • What makes this approach relevant is its ability to wrap multiple knowledge bases in a very clever piece of heuristics-based programming.

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  • It will then soar past it because of the continuing acceleration of information-based technologies, as well as the ability of machines to instantly share their knowledge.

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  • Super-specialists have two advantages over ordinary specialists: greater knowledge of the details that matter and an ability to handle the complexities of the job.

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  • The core competence of tomorrow's e-commerce successes will be the ability to change quickly, a skill perhaps even more valuable than knowledge of any particular market.

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