Part of the problem, explained one consultant, was that the providers found themselves in a quandary.
At the time, one consultant called this the largest nationalisation of assets since the communist takeover of China.
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Kennedy, Lotito said, which detailed the activities of one consultant in particular who hired middlemen to spy on union meetings and threaten employees.
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Too often social media becomes an unfunded mandate, said one consultant who finds that many Fortune 100 companies have social media departments consisting of one person.
What family ever agrees about anything, asked one consultant rhetorically.
Central European growth may be the selling point of the merger, but in old, western European banking it is little more than a rounding error, says one consultant, rather dismissively.
Ether is now very little used, if at all, although when I trained as an anaesthetist there was one consultant who did still use ether very rarely for certain operations.
For example, one large consultant claimed it was not affiliated with any money manager.
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One compliance consultant says it may be possible to monitor their accounts closely to avoid shutting them down.
But one tax consultant said a lot of it had already been moved.
One security consultant said it was no surprise that Pastebin had emerged unscathed.
One security consultant speculates that this is a kind of class warfare.
One political consultant, who said he expected massive cheating at the polls, as well as some violence, says that the voting still marks a step forward, since the strengthened opposition will inevitably help curb abuses of executive power.
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One nurse consultant I spoke to told me that being asked to vote on whether or not to accept the deal felt a bit like trying to decide whether or not to take out a bank loan without knowing the interest rate.
The former Ebay chief and one-time consultant embraced the goal of fixing California.
Apparently one Florida public pension attorney has compensation arrangements with at least one broker-consultant and certain money managers regularly recommended by the broker-consultant.
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The BBC spoke to two experienced pilots and one helicopter safety consultant, all of whom were unaware the 1km visibility rule applied in certain scenarios.
One merger proponent, consultant Gary Arlen of Arlen Communications in Bethesda, Md.
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In Chicago the consultant to one pension fund refused to disclose how much brokerage and other compensation it derived from managers it recommended the fund hire.
Over the past decade, however, the one-time McKinsey consultant has branched out from Silicon Valley, taking seats on Wal-Mart Stores in 2001 and comic book publisher Marvel Entertainment in 2006.
Gibson, England bowling consultant for the one-day series in Sri Lanka, took 80 Championship wickets for Durham.
One prominent health-care consultant has lamented that doctors are the biggest single obstacle to reforming American medicine.
For one thing, "competing service providers, like Visa and MasterCard, don't want to be on one card, " says consultant Svigals.
It was early in my experience as a management consultant, and one of the senior partners in the healthcare practice had taken me out for lunch and conversation.
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His decision to rely on paper charts was often a source of embarrassment to his son, a one-time health IT consultant, whenever clients asked him what kind of electronic health record his father used.
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But I am ready for other options, one of them being a CSR consultant.
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One of his partners was a consultant for years at Deloitte and is a sculptor in his free time.
This suggests the Down to Earth article was itself a source for the IPCC, though Murari Lal, a retired Indian academic, now a consultant, who was one of the four co-ordinating lead authors of the chapter, says this was not the case.
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