But even companies that are trying to make their executive compensation transparent find it hard to reconcile this objective with two others:the need to attract the best person for the job of CEO and the desire to align his interests with those of shareholders.

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Wachter and others urge patients to check out objective information about a physician.

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David Cameron's explicit rejection of the idea of "ever closer union" with the words, "for Britain - and perhaps for others - it is not the objective, " may prove to be the most historically significant part in his long awaited Europe speech.

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There is no blame game because everyone is focused on realizing the company goal instead of achieving their departmental objective at the expense of others.

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My point is that he will put forward a series of proposals that, by any objective measure and observation by you and others, are the kinds that have enjoyed bipartisan support in the past.

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"Military men are trained to fight, attain an objective, defeat an enemy -- all others are secondary, " he says.

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The 80% figure is an aggregate, allowing individual countries to fall short of the objective, but only on the questionable assumption that others will exceed it.

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"Although the involvement of others in the kidnap cannot be completely ruled out, there is no objective proof this was the case and no leads could be found, " read the report commissioned last year by the Austrian parliament.

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In not applying a performance objective to fear and stress, many programs (including basic training and others) gave up a piece of what mattered most.

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