Mr Poots said that he recognised the personal commitment that Mr Donaghy had brought in his time as chief executive of the Northern trust, and the efforts he had been making to secure improvement.

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In the vast U.S., with its competing data standards, making even this limited improvement a reality will be an expensive and complicated proposition.

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For example, a CEO may decide that the following goals are essential: Increasing products or pipeline, improving distribution channels, making cost structures flexible to cyclicality, accelerating quality improvement, and establishing market leadership in a given segment or geography.

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Learn to own failures without making excuses, and then quickly begin focusing on solutions to increase the probability for improvement.

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It is making efforts to enhance its credibility in urban and rural community in order to contribute to the improvement of social conditions necessary to move forward with the project.

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And because a lot of your public schools opened themselves up to new ideas and innovative reforms, we're actually seeing an improvement in overall achievement that is making the city a model for reform nationwide.

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'promote international cooperation and to coordinate programmes in research, services and capacity building, in order to learn more about the nature and resources of the ocean and coastal areas and to apply that knowledge for the improvement of management, sustainable development and protection of the marine environment and the decision-making process of its Member States'.

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The measure may still be distorted by recent cold weather and a Monday holiday, however, making analysts hesitant to use the low reading as a solid indication of improvement.

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It's more compact than the 5D and even the 7D, an APS-C camera, weighing in at 690 grams -- a 20-percent decrease from that larger pro model. 20 percent may not sound like a tremendous improvement, but it's certainly noticeable, boosting the 6D's versatility, and making it an ideal choice for street and travel photography.

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