It also cut social-security contributions, partly making up the shortfall with higher value-added tax.
Dr Powers told the court the Ten Tors Expedition had great social value and Mrs Wilkin-Shaw did not want to diminish its benefit.
Today LinkedIn has more than 3, 000 employees focused on building a highly integrated, compelling, value-oriented social network which meets the needs of business professionals and employers.
Global design firm Woods Bagot also understands the value of business-style social tools to facilitate knowledge management.
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As a result, the coming year will see intense CIO involvement in optimizing customer experiences, exploiting analytics, transforming Big Data to Big Opportunities, accelerating all facets of enterprise execution, mainstreaming social capabilities, and enabling co-creation of value with customers.
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So as much as a fair-minded social policy might like to reduce the value of my goose in line with the losses suffered by other savers, the value that the goose produces everyday makes it absolutely impossible for anyone to do that.
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It's simply a summation of a country's top rates on personal and corporate income, plus value-added taxes and wealth and social welfare taxes.
Accordingly, a slate of torrent portals like Vodo offers consumers media choices that include outright ownership, no-DRM formats that are transferable to mobile devices, zero pricing, added-value bundles and in some cases rudimentary social discovery environments.
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Consider ways of redirecting some of the lower-value items in your budget to community or social activities.
In sum, the more unbounded social-engineering power the Congress gives the FCC, the less value and utility this highly valuable spectrum will have to users, taxpayers and the economy writ large.
It could have created new financing and lay-away policies that communicated value, and used social media to create meaningful communities of consumers who wanted to track and participate in conversations about prices.
The social-networking company has lost 26% of its stock-market value since its May 18 debut, including a 2.3% decline on Wednesday.
If you choose the latter then you already have an insight into how social is teaming up with new business platforms to create more efficient micro-value services.
However, a shift is occurring in the enterprise as business leaders look for ways to generate real value through the use of social technologies to evolve their front-line business operations.
Truth be told, not only are these very often hard-working and widely-admired individuals who are doing things that are of great social value, but when they go to the store or a restaurant, they create jobs for those in the private sector, too.
He is likely to stress the value of Catholic social teaching and link it with ideas of community-building contained in David Cameron's concept of the Big Society.
Higher-education institutions argue that they bring jobs, and add cultural and social value, making communities more livable.
Though I'm skeptical of joining yet another social network, Nextdoor's neighborhood-based approach made it a standout network with real value.
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Value creation, as mentioned earlier, goes hand-in-hand with social business maturity.
If you're currently a social butterfly who posts updates throughout the day, you might find true value in the Facebook button -- if not, it's unlikely to change your habits.
If what you're good at has no social value, like playing Nintendo, you might want to get a job at a computer-game store, or you might want to take a course in designing computer games.
Many owners, including Ken Lopez of Washington, who started using social media to market his consulting business in 2011, tend to think the "value" of social media comes primarily from measurable factors, such as pageviews, click-throughs or direct sales.
It might look a statement of the obvious - but it signals that the social network is finally emerging from its state of denial about the true value of "likes", which have been presented as a valuable currency to advertisers.
Start-ups will need to either succeed on conventional financial metrics or have a breakthrough value proposition, like social networking, that, realistically, comes along only a few times in a decade.
The IBM Institute for Business Value found that 60-65% of business leaders who believe that consumers follow their brands on social media sites because they want to be a part of a community.
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His transgressions include being open to a value-added tax, a less-than-stellar record on healthcare, weakness on Social Security reform, an anemic list of proposed budget savings, and support for reprehensible ethanol subsidies.
It has been building for the past few years and will most likely herald its full arrival in 2013: a perfect storm of out-dated organizational practices, new mindsets about what really adds value to business performance and the maturation of social, mobile and cloud technologies that enable the transformation.
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