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Sobczak suggests that you set action-oriented goals before you ever pick up the phone to call the prospective client.
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Unfortunately for the Kremlin, Soviet farmers have, in part, balked at supplying their produce to Moscow center since local authorities and more free-market oriented entrepreneurs are willing to pay producers higher prices than those set by central authorities -- which have remained largely unchanged for over 15 years.
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For Neiman Marcus, the theory was that the partnership would let it capture the value-oriented shopper without having to set up its own outlet like Nordstrom Rack.
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Instead it adopted a radically different way of managing work: it implemented a set of agile, customer-driven, outcome-oriented, iterative management practices.
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As a National League expansion franchise whose original core audience was comprised of recently abandoned fans of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, the Mets set out to distinguish themselves as a fun, family-oriented alternative to the corporate, buttoned down Yankees.
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We need a candid appraisal of past failures in our foreign aid programs and a sweeping growth-oriented revision of the IMF's austerity mind-set.
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But suffice it to say that Mitt is a very goal-oriented guy, and after achieving the governorship, he set his sights quickly on the next challenge -- the one that had eluded his beloved father -- the presidency.
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Pro-exchange Republicans, at the state level, believed that if they set up the exchanges themselves, they could do so in a more market-oriented way than the federal government would.
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We are so short-term-oriented that many of us would rather have a fatter paycheck now than set aside some of that happiness, even if the funds will be greater in the future.
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On the new Rather Ripped, Sonic Youth has crafted arguably its tightest and most refined set of songs: Reining in the jammy tendencies of its recent predecessors, the album is more song-oriented, with comparatively little in the way of the noisy experimentalism that characterized the band's early work.
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