At this point Loeb thinks Hirai should have been more decisive in his leadership, and clearer with his focus.
While NBC dithered and backtracked on its "Tonight" succession plan involving O'Brien, Comcast is likely to be more decisive.
More decisive, however, will be the speed with which the Internet approach to computing that Oracle preaches takes off.
That has prompted some to wonder whether a more decisive move is needed.
And yet there are two reasons to suppose that he would be more decisive and consistent than Mr Clinton.
He also notes that such influence is more decisive in local campaigns, where turnout is low, than in national ones.
In Libya, do you believe more German military involvement in that operation would bring it to a faster, more decisive conclusion?
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The latest round of meddling does not so far signal a more decisive rejection of the merits of independent central banks.
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Professor Michael Lewis-Beck of the University of Iowa and Charles Tien of Hunter College think unemployment is a more decisive factor.
If Europe's energy liberalisation is to deliver its promised benefits, more decisive action is needed on three fronts: transmission, trading and transparency.
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Chile's response seems to have been swifter, better co-ordinated and more decisive.
In the second round, the endorsement of the five opposition candidates who had been eliminated in the first round made Mr Kufuor's lead even more decisive.
Dr. Barathan Sinniah, a parasite expert attached to a university in Perth, Australia, reckons the authorities must take more decisive action to clear mosquito breeding grounds.
The second and perhaps more decisive factor concerns the economy.
In some cases, these new habits can help a leader be more decisive and single-minded, or more likely to make choices that will be profitable regardless of their popularity.
"There are the short-term sticking-plaster steps of a proper firewall to prevent contagion around Europe, a much more decisive settlement for Greece... strengthening the European banks, " he told Sky News.
Mr Romney must now adapt his strategy, and come up with a more decisive riposte to those who criticise his personal wealth and career record as a venture capitalist, our correspondent says.
Such solicitousness would have been widely welcomed a decade ago in then-authoritarian Indonesia, but today some admirers of the former general, both at home and in the region, wish he'd be more decisive.
And yet, although everyone presumed that he would take swift legal action, Rousselot decided, to the dismay of those who had expected a stronger and more decisive attitude on his part, to do nothing.
And the sooner that they act, and the more decisive and concrete their actions, the sooner people and markets will regain some confidence and the cheaper the costs of cleanup will be down the road.
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The last ranked team to lose a bowl game by a more decisive score was Northwestern on Dec. 30, 2000, when the 18th-ranked Wildcats were beaten 66-17 by No. 9 Nebraska in the Alamo Bowl.
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But for now it remains unclear whether they are simply strengthening their grip on areas around their home city, or laying the foundations for a bigger and more decisive offensive into the heart of western Libya.
It is the surprise factor - the shock evinced by Mr Dimon - that will reignite the debate about whether regulators need to take more decisive action to curb the complexity of investment banks, to better prevent this kind of accident.
Opponents claimed that he wanted to inflict a defeat on the judiciary ahead of a law reform later this year, and that he also hoped to cow the president as part of a broader strategy aimed at taking over the presidency himself and giving Italy what his admirers say would be a more decisive form of presidential government.
There is, however, another test that may prove even more decisive to the prospects for providing the American people with the sort of protection they expect and deserve: Will the four uniformed leaders of the Nation's armed forces be allowed to play a substantive and influential role in decisions that appear likely to preclude the development and deployment of effective national missile defenses?
The disproportionate punishment of Mr Flight and Mr Kruger, neither of whom have said anything that many Tories do not think, makes Mr Howard look more panicky than decisive.
This makes them think they are in control of the situation, and when people think they're in control, they're more likely to be decisive.
Either way, the device could give boxing a second wind at a time when fight fans increasingly are turning to mixed martial arts, or MMA, a form of combat that more often ends with decisive knockouts.
But that only makes prompt and decisive action all the more necessary.
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