Otherwise it is just too easy not to meet these goals, especially when the scope of the plan is as transformative as this.

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As with most things in the business world, the size and scope of your business plan depend on your specific goals.

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Hiring and retaining employees who have the ability to follow specific instructions but who can also make decisions within the scope of a specific care plan, not only empowers the employee, but the system as a whole.

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But it is the sheer scope of all facets of Mr Rifkin's plan that makes it unique.

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An agreement to double daily passenger flights to China by 2012 and a plan to allow securities firms to expand their scope in were the big takeaways.

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He called the three-page bailout plan "stunning and unprecedented, " not only in scope, but also in lack of detail.

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He announced the plan at a pre-inquest legal review considering the scope of the inquest, due to start in May.

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"Sometimes charges get made that exceed the scope of the actual events, " Garland said, adding that he and his client plan to resolve the case without it going to trial.

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Ridge said that because this is a new position, the job duties and scope of his new assignment are not yet all spelled out, but it involves creating and coordinating a strategic plan for homeland defense.

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