One should always view scientific results with an objective mind, and look at how the supporting evidence is gathered, and whether the evidence are representative enough to support the arguments, before deciding the results is acceptable or not.

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So if everyone has that objective in mind as we move forward, compromise is pretty easy.

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But another automotive CEO, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors, has quite a different objective in mind.

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This a major failing, because organizations are only able to perform well on the triple bottom line measures of profitability, sustainability, and social impact when they are designed with this objective in mind.

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You spend a great deal of time either finding all the objects of a certain type (like cats, a lot of them) or gathering items for a character to achieve whatever nefarious objective they have in mind.

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Its objective is to recalibrate your mind and free you from the imprisonment of your past decisions, to break you free from the buy-and-hold state of mind and turn you into a buy-and-sell investor.

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But then the problem occurred, if the objective is owning a word in the mind, what is the role and function of a visual?

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The competing interests are clear: Fiat wants to pay as little as possible to pick up the rest of Chrysler and complete the strategic objective of combining them that Marchionne had in mind when he worked with the U.S. government and the UAW to rescue the company in 2009.

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The objective must be to distribute the sacrifice as broadly and fairly as possible, keeping firmly in mind the need to foster economic growth and job creation.

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