The mission for Net Impact is to mobilize a new generation to use their careers to drive transformational change in the workplace and the world, so that by 2020 the norm is a bottom line that considers not only profit, but people and planet, too.

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Are receivables and inventories in line with the historical norm?

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As Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute points out, this line of argument may also prove effective after the war, if the diplomatic wounds do not rapidly heal.

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Despite the initial wariness by the industry watchers I spoke to, they did all agree that down the line the form of computing being championed by Chromebooks will become the norm.

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The line between brand development and psychotherapy becomes ambiguous when personality products are the norm.

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Even after their tumble, the aggregate price-earnings ratio is in line with developed markets, rather than at the discount that has been the historical norm.

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Getting in line at an Apple store a day or more in advance of a new product release has become the norm in the seven years since the company released the iPhone.

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