They no longer need to deploy larger in-house supporting functions, such as accounts, marketers and secretaries, and middle managers to look after these functions.

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Still, he has laid out plans to revert Citi back to the "silo" model, which calls for the bank's operating units to run more autonomously while supporting functions, like legal and IT, become more centralized.

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Agencies shall notify JFMIP on plans to acquire software supporting core financial system functions.

WHITEHOUSE: Circular No. A-127 -- Transmittal Memorandum No. 2 (Financial Management Systems) | The White House

He said that, time and again, war-ravaged people had asked for help in establishing security and safety, restoring basic services and core Government functions, supporting a political transition and jump-starting economic recovery.

UN: Security Council

These are key functions for supporting e-commerce sites.

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The kit can be leveraged to design cables, dongles, boosters and extenders capable of supporting the full suite of DisplayPort features and functions.

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Second-quarter earnings season has offered some supporting evidence for why Goldman might want to increase its traditional banking functions.

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Maki's effortless singing functions as the disc's centerpiece, while musically, her supporting cast plays it fairly straight-ahead and honest, neither over- nor underplaying.

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Each instrument and each musician takes on different functions: sustaining, modifying, synthesizing and innovating, paired into two key types of roles supporting and leading.

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