"So if you're the new UNFCCC head, the first task would be to project the correct view that the UN processes, its practices and principles, are respected, " he told BBC News.

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Fortunately for them, assembling all that data back in Mountain View was a far less rigorous task: Google engineers use their mapping software to link the photos to their shooting locations and string them together to create the panoramic paths users walk through.

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According to Mischel, this view of will power also helps explain why the marshmallow task is such a powerfully predictive test.

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Innovative companies view customer activity as the basis of competition and a task in the context of all the tasks that customer has to do before, during and afterwards.

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Both companies take the view that oil supply will plateau, not slide as the task force is warning.

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Traditional companies tend to view products and services as the basis of competition and a task as a discrete event.

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In this regard they reaffirmed the commitment from June 29th to task the Eurogroup to examine the situation of the Irish financial sector with a view to further improving the sustainability of the well performing adjustment programme.

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