Cadbury chief executive Todd Stitzer said Cadbury's performance in recent months had continued to "exceed expectations", demonstrating that Cadbury's strategy of remaining as a standalone company was working.

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The current strategy depends on the prison population remaining stable, but this is something over which it NOMS has no control, Mrs Hodge said.

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And happiness at the prospect of remaining part of the team on matters relating to strategy, products and corporate relations.

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Originally thought inconsequential to the proposed buyout of BSkyB the scandal, which resulted in the closure of the more than a century old paper, has given ammunition to those that oppose the takeover and may seems to be forcing the billionaire into a new strategy if he wants to acquire the remaining 60.1% of BSkyB not already owned by News Corp.

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The remaining 25% have some middling success but do not meet the full potential of the strategy devised.

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But they also recognised that Mr Icahn really did lack an alternative strategy, and that he had, by saying as much, frittered away any remaining bargaining clout with Microsoft.

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The New York Times quoted Pentagon officials as saying strategy had changed in recent months, shifting towards increased use of ground forces to hunt down remaining fighters.

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Liberal Democrat spokesman Edward Davey told MPs that recent announcements from Gordon Brown and Mr Miliband about a change in strategy for Afghanistan had gone "some way" to reassure his party about the virtues of remaining in the country.

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The scale of the defeat meant the best strategy was to move on to the Super Tuesday states and start working for victory, instead of remaining in South Carolina and contemplating defeat.

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