So Peter Robinson and his Junior Minister Jonathan Bell faced enquiries tabled some time back about the executive's sexual orientation strategy, corporation tax and community relations.

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Indeed, the defensive orientation of this strategy is some comfort.

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The premise is that consistently successful companies start with an external market orientation and vigilantly study customer trends in order to design their strategy.

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