Armies of salespeople fan out across the cities where Groupon operates, glad-handing small-business owners and convincing them of the opportunities to be found in short-term group discounts.
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If a government-funded initiative requires short-term workers, FLP group members are often the first to apply and as a result will be absent from the sessions for the duration of the contract.
Meanwhile, Duke has landed a short-term contract job lobbying for an environmental group.
One group includes the short-term investors whose only concern is the quick profits they can score riding the coattails of an activist investor.
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Though people in the blue group performed worse on short-term memory tasks, they did far better on tasks requiring some imagination, such as coming up with creative uses for a brick or designing a children's toy.
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Paris has clearly decided that the short-term risk of increased threat from intervening is outweighed by the importance of denying a militant group a long-term sanctuary.
The International Capital Market Association, a lobby group, has warned that the tax would cause the short-term repo market in Europe to contract by at least two-thirds, with serious consequences for other financial markets and the real economy.
As a group, the pure-play investment banks have relied heavily on short-term funding, particularly repo transactions in which counterparties take collateral as security against the cash they lend.
Jonathan Fagge, chief executive of the Norwich Clinical Commissioning Group, said the money would make a significant difference but it was only a short-term solution.
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The Berkeley group does depart from the "orthodox" picture of climate science in its depiction of short-term variability in the global temperature.
That was reinforced a short while ago as I met with a group of managers for a follow-up session in a long-term development process.
For example, today I was facilitating a group of about 50 people from a large organization who were coming up with short and mid-term product ideas for the digital part of their business.
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