Overrewarding employees ranges from protecting employees from natural consequences, excusing them from standard practices, making exceptions to prop up their performance, to outright promoting them in spite of outlandish past behavior or history with the company.

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Thus, they use the same material as standard crystal silicone panel manufacturers, with two major exceptions.

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The commission has now accepted this argument, and is proposing that "fins attached" becomes standard across EU fleets, although there might be exceptions.

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Many would defend utility theory (as well as other aspects of their standard model of behaviour) as a useful approximation, pointing out that exceptions to approximations can always be found.

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"This standard is now in place for all merchants globally who accept credit cards--no exceptions, " says Bill Bradley, senior industry marketing manager for Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, Mass.

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