This approach has the same blame-shifting, mud-slinging potential as the debacle at Lloyd's in the 1990s.
For CMOs and marketing organizations, reaching and engaging consumers has become a frenetic, ever-shifting, always-on exercise.
Mated to a quick-shifting eight-speed automatic transmission, it brings the car up to speed swiftly and with authority when pressed hard.
Two-and-half-hour stints are a breeze, thanks to the surprising suppleness of the suspension, potent engine, smooth-shifting seven-speed automatic transmission and quiet interior.
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So transporting gloopy oil is far more profitable than shifting lighter-than-air gas.
While it works well and includes a manual gear-select mode, a proper manual gearbox or a quicker-shifting dual-clutch automated manual transmission would afford livelier performance.
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Since then, the rumor has been largely dispelled through a lot of uncomfortable chair-shifting and egg-faced hemming and hawing in the pages of the financial rags.
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The forest landscapes are fabulously rendered, the characters innovative -- ranging from huge, shape-shifting beasts to floppy little Dali-esqe forest dwellers.
Weakened by the disruption of its finances and communications, with its base destroyed and its leaders in flight, it has become a loose and ever-shifting alliance of like-minded groups.
Shifting call-centres to cheap-labour countries such as India seems to touch a particularly raw nerve.
As in most central African countries, Congo's deforestation is currently minor, caused largely by small-scale shifting cultivation and over-harvesting of wood for fuel.
Because change is what produces opportunity, the faster the future arrives--with all its weird new technology, disruptive economic models and shifting alliances--the more opportunity there will be.
Doyle missed the conversion and was substituted soon after for Peter Stringer, the all-action O'Leary shifting to stand-off and taking over the kicking duties.
Now the Keidanren, the association of big, dyed-in-the-wool manufacturers, is shifting its position.
Behind this, says Mr Spence, is the trend of American multinationals to keep the highest value-added activities at home while shifting lower value-added activities, such as manufacturing, abroad.
We also showcased several feats of futuristic architecture -- a skyscraper zoo with a built-in ferris wheel and a shape-shifting solar bridge that purifies the air.
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Water infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region is shifting from predominantly short-term benefit planning and development, to a more strategic and long-term benefit planning concept that also addresses ecological efficiency in economic growth.
Phase-shifting is the same process behind noise-cancelation equipment and polarized sunglasses.
Notwithstanding the shutdown of many nuclear plants, fairly moderate energy-saving and load-shifting measures have been enough to avert severe service interruptions.
Whether, individually, we are conservatives or liberals or somewhere in the middle, we have a right to expect the people who have been hired to solve the country's problems to do just that, and to spare us the name-calling and blame-shifting.
For the last few years, youth in the U.S. have been barraged with bad news: An unemployment rate that reached 18.1% for the 16-to-24 set in 2011, rising education costs, shifting market demands and declining middle-class jobs.
Multinationals such as Google are highly skilled at reducing their U.S. tax bill to near-zero, in part by shifting income to low-tax countries.
Michael Carvin, an attorney representing private plaintiffs including the National Federation of Independent Business, rejected the government's premise that 40 million uninsured Americans are distorting the health-care market by shifting costs of free emergency-room care to taxpayers and insurance ratepayers.
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Parents shouldn't be obliged to act as the sole filters for the torrent of material, as they are today, blocking channels and password-protecting against the ever-shifting programming.
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They distrust Mr Thanong's projection of an export-led recovery, given that Thailand is in the throes of shifting from cheap-labour industries to manufacturing capital-intensive goods, such as cars and electronics.
To blame is not merely night shift work but shifting shifts--rotations from morning to afternoon to graveyard.
Of course, market perceptions are always shifting -- but that's the way the big investors are betting right now.
It also plans to unshackle health-care costs from labor costs by freezing the amount employers pay into the system and shifting from income-based contributions toward a flat-rate health insurance premium.
The museum's 10 thematic galleries explore traditional aspects of pan-Asian culture, the focus shifting between exquisite, subtly-lit artefacts from Southeast Asia, China, India, Sri Lanka and even Turkey.
The U-turn owes a lot to the shifting dynamics of the euro-zone bond markets, which have also affected Italy.
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