• Better to hope that the IMF is called in to slash budgets and order mass lay-offs, and then to take over and blame everything on the previous lot.

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  • Critics of George W. Bush harshly chastised him for allegedly misleading the American people about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction in order to get us into a needless and unjustified war.

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  • Mr Milosevic also insisted that he did not order the mass expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo.

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  • Google recently announced company-wide bonuses and a 10% salary boost in order to combat mass defections.

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  • The Trumpf machinery allows a piece's size, shape and pattern to be changed to order, making mass customization possible.

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  • Young companies that were entering mass production of their technologies in order to compete effectively with larger rivals went bust, including Solyndra and Abound Solar.

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  • This means that in order to reach the mass consumers in inland areas, companies need to diversify their product portfolios and design products with fewer fancy features but stronger basic functions.

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  • "In order to create a mass market phenomenon a lot has to be done in terms of availability of the technology and development of utilities and applications that harness the power of broadband, " says Chaki.

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  • But times have changed and it appears that in order to avert a mass exodus of shareholders from the medical products spin-off, Abbott, the board of directors came up with what can only be described as a Solomonic solution to the critical dividend issue.

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  • In order to get a critical mass of videos up on its site, Google may have compromised its chance at being the herald of a standard, open format--a mission the public would surely have viewed as decidedly not evil.

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  • To do so, he would have to intervene personally and make a number of burdensome findings in order to overrule a determination of mass market or foreign availability made by his Secretary of Commerce.

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  • It seems to have been not so much religious faith as the whole, enclosing framework of Catholicism, which, whatever its faults, gave order and meaning to the great mass of Spaniards, and which they were not about to surrender.

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  • Cronk, who also designs three lines of ready-to-wear jeans, attributes the interest in handmade, special-order jeans to a growing malaise toward mass-produced goods.

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  • To succeed in mass customisation, firms must change more than just the order in which things are assembled.

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  • The documents show details of daily life, such as how heavy wax candles were a crucial purchase in order for 15th century worshippers to see the Eucharist during Mass.

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  • However, he points out that this time, manufacturing companies and workers are seeking short-term working and pay freeze agreements in order to retain skilled workers, in contrast to the mass layoffs in the 1980s.

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  • Russia had wanted a greater role for the UN in the post-war administration of Iraq and for the UN's weapons inspectors to return in order to certify that the country has no weapons of mass destruction.

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  • On July 28, 1998, the President issued Executive Order 13094 amending Executive Order 12938 to respond more effectively to the worldwide threat of weapons of mass destruction proliferation activities.

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  • In its first two decades in the U.S. Toyota and other carmakers were convinced that mass-market plants had to build roughly 400, 000 cars a year in order to maximize efficiency.

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  • After poor earnings and a tidal wave of negative PR surrounding big titles over the past few years like Star Wars: The Old Republic, Mass Effect 3 and most recently, SimCity, it appears a change was in order.

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  • Izhar Gafni, from Israel, spent 18 months just folding the material every-which-way in order to discover a strong enough design, and now he claims his technique is almost ready for mass production.

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