Like all brains, Stanley's has a range of sensory inputs to process.

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The process must be iterative, with inputs coming from all of the agency plans and the outputs feeding into the budget and investment control processes.

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The inputs to the investment process are information and analysis.

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In both cases, modernization has been analysed as a process of "critical receptiveness" towards inputs from elsewhere.

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Innovations such as ATMs or the Internet enhance this process, leading to greater output from fewer inputs.

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On the other hand, creative logic presumes that skills and capabilities of the individuals are a starting point, that opportunities can be made or created, the process is iterative, and that there are some unknown inputs.

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Serious scholars of foreign policy will be able to have something of an inside track on US diplomacy for the years covered by these cables, at least in terms of being able to monitor some of the inputs coming into the foreign policy-making process.

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Developing insight from the environment happens when all inputs are shared, and lots of people contribute to the process.

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Depending on whether it was just a fluke occurrence or a sign that the constitution of the oil sands it processes is changing, the company could either retool its extraction process or, if the problem is a short-term one, blend the rich ore with more normal inputs.

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