Editor of Giant Robot magazine and Asian American commentator Martin Wong, sees these westernization surgeries as far more insidious than just simple procedures.

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In most cases the simple procedures restore sight to long-blind persons.

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Demonstrating simple procedures such as properly charging and inserting the battery, inserting a tape or memory card, and selecting the correct recording mode eats up classroom time when using a regular camera.

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But the answer to that question of how it happened is simple: procedures.

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In India, for example, enforcing a simple commercial contract takes 56 procedures and nearly four years, notes the World Bank, while in Venezuela, workers who earn less than 1.5 times the minimum wage can't be fired.

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Many Chinese companies still struggle to understand basic business procedures, even things as simple as attending board meetings.

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While it is not yet possible to determine how large such profits will actually be -- the terms of some of the transactions now under negotiation with the USSR make the accounting procedures applied to leveraged buyouts look simple -- in terms of the overall national trade picture, they are likely to remain a drop in the bucket.

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The beauty of this mission is that it has proven to be simple enough to be inspiring to our employees, yet demanding enough to dictate systems and procedures that have resulted in our ability to replicate our success from year to year.

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