There are some 600 Web sites that look suspiciously like illegal pyramid storefronts, according to a Federal Trade Commission survey last year.
These include some of the interesting management practices at technology-services companies like Infosys, the bottom-of-the-pyramid strategies like those that Tata is pursuing with the Nano car, or the rapid innovation of some Chinese companies.
The couple's love for traditional Mexican art can be seen throughout the house, from the large fireplace designed by Rivera that dominates the first room, resembling a step pyramid like the ones built by the Mayas and Aztecs, to Kahlo's paintings and the couple's collection of smaller sculptures.
This pyramid-like building is the Church of San Agustin in Paoay in the Northern Luzon.
The series of glass-covered cubes proposed for the world-famous gallery have been replaced with a pyramid-like structure clad in perforated brick.
The only way manual systems could work for a larger group would be through a pyramid-like mechanism, with small groups reporting their manually obtained results up the chain to more central tabulating authorities.
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Like acrobats in a human pyramid, the Caucasus countries are inevitably affected by their neighbours' behaviour.
Most marketing degrees teach people how to build brand awareness and how to establish brand metrics (anything that looks like a funnel or a pyramid mostly) and budgets are tied to them, and with that, a brands future.
Things could rapidly boil over if Mr Gligorov, whose weak coalition has been hit by scandal over collapsing pyramid investment schemes (like those that did for Mr Berisha in Albania), has to call an election.
You can worship at the Maslow Pyramid as much as you like, but nothing drives sales like a commission.
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Bottom-of-the-pyramid markets would be the best fit: places like Africa, Southeast Asia and maybe eastern Europe and Latin America, wherever income levels mirror India's.
The Pereda family, like others in the area, exerts itself mightily to build a literal pyramid of salt, only to break it down into sacks of salt for sale.
It may not have been like 30 years ago, when the cool kids who would shape the future met each other Monday nights at the Pyramid Club on Avenue A or, later, sobering up with blintzes and coffee at the Kiev as dawn broke.
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