Philips also do not just look at the scores, but also the actual verbatims from the customers, and we identified and act upon those comments that make the most influence on the scores.

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Not Asian, not resident in the region, the IMF chief won out on the basis of the make-or-break influence his organization had on Crisis-hit Asian countries.

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But differences in how banks account for their trading positions may have a big influence on how well they ultimately make out with their bets.

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"While we are all aware of political developments in Kenya, these have no influence, at all, on the decisions that I make, " Ms Bensouda added.

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This portion of the NY Index keeps tabs on those New Yorkers who combine their influence and passion to make big things happen in the city.

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If we can identify genes which have a particularly prominent influence on obesity that would be useful, but it wouldn't necessarily make treatment any easier.

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But how do people we know little more about than the parts they play on screen have influence over the things we watch, the decisions we make and the people we become?

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Groups that make what the city calls "independent expenditures" on political campaigns offer a way to influence elections without following the city's strict spending and contribution limits for individual candidates and traditional political-action committees.

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And we have states in this country where farmers, the hardest working people in this country, can't make their mortgage payments because of things that happened half a world away they didn't have any direct influence on at all.

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