The current spike in share value is a sign that investors are eager to see Sony make bold reform moves, but the company may be able to take less drastic steps and still come out on top.
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Can you create a business plan that starts with relatively less risky steps to help you analyze the market, find your customers, discover their needs and thoughts about your business idea, and then alter your strategy if your customers tell you to do so?
At the very least, if the Old Guard calculates that such bold steps would produce draconian cuts in foreign assistance, debt relief, technology flows, etc, less dramatic -- but no less portentous -- steps are to be expected.
Most of these decorating ideas take, basically, two steps or less, and it's a lot of fun.
When you have little time and even less clarity, complexity steps in to demand even more of you.
But if a red line has been crossed, Cameron was less clear on what the next steps should be.
Yet tutors at the top universities have made modest steps towards achieving a less skewed intake ever since admissions data were first published 13 years ago, mostly without dropping their entry standards.
Although about seven out of 10 alcoholics who are encouraged to go to Alcoholics Anonymous during treatment drop out in less than a year, the 12 steps of AA are included in some form in the great majority of addiction programs.
Testators may account for these occurrences while drafting the will and follow steps to make a will contest less likely to succeed.
Raising exactly what you expect to need to do the right set of value-creating steps (no more, no less) is a tricky balance between fear and greed.
We support steps taken by both sides that make that more likely, and we oppose steps taken by either side that make it less likely, that make it harder to accomplish.
The less than 1% that are unlawfully large must take immediate steps to comply with the law.
There was also concern that local regulators would take all necessary steps to protect their incumbent banks, leading to less-than-perfect transparency.
Anammox bacteria transform ammonia to nitrogen in fewer steps than more common bacteria, and require much less oxygen, and therefore energy, to do so.
Ms Spelman has said that the policy distorts trade and called for the subsidies to have less emphasis on food production, and reward farmers who take steps to protect the environment.
The biggest companies in the world have less than 5% share of world production, and it rapidly steps down from there.
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All these steps would provide more certainty for your businesses, not less.
In a recent leaked letter to the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, Mr Ramesh mulled going further, floating the idea that India should be less bound to its developing-world allies and take bolder mitigation steps.
Those have been happening more or less under our direction, and we feel comfortable about many of the steps that have been taken.
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Von Hoff says that the next steps for Abraxane in pancreatic cancer could include testing it in less sick patients to see if it can shrink tumors enough to remove them surgically.
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But while factors like fierce competition and less full-time hiring are difficult obstacles to overcome, there are definitive steps interns can take to increase their chances of landing a salary.
If South Korea steps in to provide the missing electricity, the North would have much less incentive to do so.
As for effectiveness, I do think limiting the size of my inbox has been helpful in forcing me to procrastinate a little less, organize my digital life and treat each task as a series of discrete steps rather than a vague, daunting undertaking.
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These are all steps we have to take, to our better, possibly Federal-Reserve-less future.
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In turn, women are often less familiar with the networking aspects of funding and have fewer role model entrepreneurs to show them the steps to running a large, successful business.
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That scenario is considered less likely than telling checking-account customers they will face a new fee unless they go online or take other steps outlined by the bank.
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