Mr Lynn said the Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace was defensive, countering earlier criticism that the strategy might be too aggressive.

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The company said businesses and schools were buying more Palms and the company is sticking to its strategy of embracing wireless technology and licensing the Palm operating system to competing device makers.

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The solution is a second operating system, devoted to the design and implementation of strategy, that uses an agile, networklike structure and a very different set of processes.

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The loan had been a main pillar of its operating strategy.

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MS-DOS and later Windows as the dominant operating system for the personal computer thanks to its own pioneering efforts, the brilliance of its business strategy and the network effects that give a single standard inherent advantages over any rivals.

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James Eadie QC, who represented the Communities Secretary, argued in court that Mr Pickles had power to revoke the entire regional strategy tier of planning policy guidance and was entitled to do so as it was not operating in the public interest.

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With the growth trajectory expected to continue thanks to a diligent execution of its operating strategy, Comfort Systems looks like a solid momentum pick.

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In addition, Apple and Samsung combined to grab 91% of the operating profits of all cellphone makers in the fourth quarter, up from 61% last year, according to Strategy Analytics, a London-based market research firm.

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The association between finance and international strategy is particularly notable in the contemporary business world, in which the numbers of countries that host companies operating internationally, and the heterogeneity among them, have increased a great deal.

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