During 2012, we also started to see signs of reversing the most short-sighted decision in the world: international out-sourcing.

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Barnet council wants to award the deal to two private firms, describing it as the largest out-sourcing of services in local government history.

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This out-sourcing reportedly took place in 2010 around the same time as work on Borderlands 2 began and a whopping four years after Aliens was announced by publisher Sega.

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Its core business is a concierge service, which sorts out a wide range of problems from getting tickets to sold-out events to sourcing penguins for the birthday parties of hard-to-please children.

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"The manufacturing industry is running out of low-cost sourcing destinations, and it's time to invest in making factories safer and better, rather than searching for cheaper labor, " says Auret van Heerden, chief executive of the Fair Labor Association, a monitoring group funded partly by Western companies.

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It's called "Flip ahead, " and it uses crowd-sourcing to figure out what page you're most likely to click on next.

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Baysari set out to revive Menars by employing the very same methods utilized by Pompadour, sourcing authentic artisans and commissioning up-and-coming artists.

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