The idea is that long relationships can lead to over-cosy ties and lax audits.
India's drugmakers have many home-turf advantages, including long relationships with Indian doctors and hospitals.
The DEA has stayed engaged where national politics makes it difficult, nurturing long relationships with local police commanders to produce arrests.
But the result was that many Fortune 500 companies changed auditors during the first three years after the law was passed, sometimes breaking up very long relationships, over the same kind of impasse or seemingly sudden disagreement over old issues.
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There are similar cases of long auditor relationships at US financial services firms that almost died during the financial crisis.
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The second time around Skype was fine, because we have excellent long term relationships and the issues were not as big.
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We build long lasting relationships with the students and their families by building a strong community where they feel safe and proud to belong.
Though Dowd said she was never able to turn finding new clients into an exact science, she worked to maintain long term relationships with the ones she took on.
And one driver of that trend, says Gregory Guldner, director of the Center for the Study of Long Distance Relationships, is the perception that technology reduces the emotional separation of distance.
The threads that run between them are numerous, based on complicated and very sticky long-term relationships.
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They are soccer dads and hockey moms or in long, complicated relationships with lacrosse.
Companies that can do this are much more likely to establish long-lasting relationships with their customers.
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In the business world, this translates to a deficit of strong, long-lasting relationships with business partners.
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To verify the findings, the researchers repeated the experiment with 67 other co-eds in long-term relationships.
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One advantage they have is long-standing relationships with big companies, especially in advisory work.
Just remember, all of you, that 97% of punters are married or in long-term relationships.
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Virtually all (95%) agreed that face-to-face meetings were the key to success in building long-term relationships.
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Handelsbanken eschews bonuses too, on the grounds that they work against long-term relationships with customers and employees.
But Laura Ashley said it had "very strong and long-term relationships with our suppliers and always have done".
Only "financially secure adults in stable, committed, long-term relationships should participate, " it advises.
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"Information technology has definitely led people to believe that long-distance relationships will work more than in the past, " says Guldner.
Microsoft on the other hand dominates the market through a mix of inertia, scale and long-lasting relationships with businesses and resellers.
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So we look at this as an investment in digital innovation that pays off in immediate programs and in long-term relationships.
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The key is to focus on building long-term relationships based on frequent contact, repeatedly saying thank you and sending updates through newsletters.
Upstart financial technology companies in Silicon Valley are making a commitment to transparency as they attempt to build long-lasting relationships with customers.
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Women tend to focus on long-term relationships rather than short term gains.
Many inside and outside the firm came to blame its hard-charging investment bankers for emphasising quick trading profits over long-term relationships with clients.
The greatest barrier is in building long lasting customer relationships, reaching new customers and markets, and defining and managing brand promise and value.
Ten Thousand Villages aims to build long-term relationships with its suppliers and has worked with the majority of them for 12 years or more.
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