So they will no longer include what is known as soft facilities management, or contracts for catering, cleaning, security and IT.
More fundamentally, however, in recent years Giordano has changed its corporate culture to concentrate on such soft skills as inventory management, store layout, service and style.
Apart from that, the number of homescreens is entirely up to the user with a simple tap on the Home soft key whisking up pane management.
It went public in 1986 and is now run by a seven-person management committee headed by soft-spoken Chairman George Roche, 63, who joined in 1968 as an analyst and worked closely with Price.
In the institutional marketplace, strange as it may seem, it is possible for a money manager to profit more from soft dollars than from the negotiated asset management fee he receives.
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"Staying on top of soft skills such as critical thinking and time management while maintaining expertise in hard skills such as widely-used software programs provides candidates and employees with a necessary edge, " says Christian Idiodi, director of CBInstitute.com, a division of CareerBuilder.com that offers online courses and certifications.
"Good management is not just about a set of soft skills, " he says.
It would disadvantage small fund-management start-ups that badly need initial help from soft brokers.
Further, soft Chinese economic data overnight also undermined gold, said Carlos Sanchez, director of risk management with CPM Group.
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Wall Street was poised for a modest recovery after a big retreat on Wednesday following a soft private payrolls report from ADP and another lackluster manufacturing survey from the Institute for Supply Management.
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