When you sign a multi-year contract with a firm, you are going to live together, in the same house, for the length of the contract.

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One company I spoke with, Atlassian, has an impressively granular system where employees can graduate their project from hackathon demo to a multi-day prototype, which requires sign off from coworkers, to a short-term project, which requires sign off from a manager, to a major project, which requires signoff from an executive.

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Leading stocks, especially in tech, had been breaking down the hardest during this multi-week correction, which is a sign of diminished risk appetite that traders do not like to see.

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Like other multi-level marketers such as Amway, agents can sign up other agents to work for them and receive a taste of their commissions.

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It did so by offering single sign-on, knowledge-based and multi-factor authentication options, which ensure that the right person signs the right document consistently.

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This should be enough to attract good young European players to sign on, and could even persuade some to stay on in a multi-ethnic city with a growing middle class whose lingua franca is English.

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This week's strikes are probably a blip: multi-year pay deals have settled most of the tricky public-sector pay questions and there is scant sign of wage pressures in the private sector.

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