Your first step is to list the major decision-making areas you have for short-run change.

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If global brand name and prestige are a top-most major factor in decision making, Harvard is hard to beat for some years to come.

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This effective veto available to each state would, in an expanded EU, be a major obstacle to decision-making.

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It comes as Transport Minister Norman Baker outlined plans to devolve decision-making on major local transport schemes to local transport bodies from 2015.

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Gorbachev would follow through with the Shatalin-Yavlinsky plan for a 500 day transformation of the USSR, including a major devolution of political and economic decision-making power from the center to the individual republics.

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In addition, the press corps did not have an on-camera briefing, or an off-camera gaggle, with you yesterday to ask the White House about its decision-making process during this major foreign policy crisis.

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Differences in health status between the groups account for part of this disparity, but consumer decision-making is, we've found, also a major factor.

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But under IMF rules, all major decisions require a majority of 85%, making the US the only individual country that can block any decision.

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Non-dynastic autocratic regimes also follow a similar decision-making process, says Bueno de Mesquita, and the vote on which city will host major sports events such as the Olympics have a similar dynamic.

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