In the long run however, I think that ditching the point system would be the right move for Microsoft.
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Analysis of the point system by the Migration Policy Institute shows that immigrants from Asia and India would get preference over laborers from Mexico and other Latin American countries.
The point driven system of the FSG allows for a 2 point reduction, less prison time, for acceptance of responsibility when a person agrees to plead guilty or cooperate (not guaranteed but usually given).
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Property rights only come into play when we decide whether to invent and assign them when we try to build a system that maximises the innovation which is the point of the system.
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It is not even abuse of the system in furtherance of tax avoidance: it is the very point of the system.
It is not circling the Earth but orbits a point in the Sun-Earth system called the second Lagrange point.
The weak point of the system is the transmission of the initial task sequence.
The reputation point system is determined by actions like voting on existing questions and asking new ones.
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The whole point of the system is that the price of food should decline relative to other prices.
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The Starbucks associate selects mobile as the tender in the point of sale system (POS), and prompts the consumer to use the customer facing imager (the same as those used in airports to read boarding passes).
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The Wine Spectator and the Wine Advocate are the two most powerful point sources in the wine industry, but there are many, many reviewers who use the 100-point system.
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The United Nations Youth Programme , located in the Division for Social Policy and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), is the focal point within the United Nations system on matters related to young people.
That is roughly 0.3% of the power of the 180-decibel cut-off point that the operational system would have.
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Consumers because absolutely everything is made through the intermediation of the financial system and at each point of such contact with that system the tax will be charged.
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He said initial investigations showed the "catch-point" system automatically derailed the train to prevent it progressing further.
Matters of opinion perhaps but they do speak to the point of the system.
Apparently not whoever was programming the point of sale system for K-Mart.
For precise AF performance in a wide variety of shooting conditions, the D600 features a 39 point AF system with the new MultiCAM 4800FX AF module.
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The point-based system will provide a more efficient and effective avenue to allow highly-skilled immigrants to remain in the U.S. and help propel the U.S. into an innovative economy.
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Critics of the existing system point to the year-on-year rises in the numbers of pupils achieving top grades as a sign that GCSEs have become easier, but supporters say teenagers are working harder than ever and teachers are getting better at preparing them for exams.
Critics of the asbestos-trust system point to examples like the Kananian case in Ohio, where lawyers were sanctioned for submitting conflicting work histories to multiple trusts on behalf of a man who died of mesothelioma, which is usually attributed to asbestos.
Enthusiasm over the Vita has been held in check by the aforementioned obstacles, but I think LittleBigPlanet may be a tipping point for the system.
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The fundamental point is that the Japanese economic system is not Western capitalism.
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IDVAs support victims of domestic violence through the criminal justice system, from the point at which an arrest has been made up until the court proceedings have ended.
However, as we consider ways to strengthen the system for the future in light of what we have learned over the past year, we should critically examine capital regulations, provisioning policies, and other rules applied to financial institutions to determine whether, collectively, they increase the procyclicality of credit extension beyond the point that is best for the system as a whole.
This would be a complete reversal of demographic trends over the past century or more and would indicate that something is very badly wrong at some point in the system.
The superior accuracy of the 39-point AF system and nine cross-type sensors delivers razor sharp images by focusing precisely on the subject you choose.
Oasis, a ghost resort town in the middle of nowhere, can be accessed via the Fast Travel system at any point in the game.
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The mathematical sciences were neglected almost to the point of extinction within the mediaeval educational system, the schools teaching almost no mathematics and the universities only paying lip service to a narrow curriculum of mathematical topics at the very lowest level.
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As Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, likes to point out, the entire banking system of many an emerging country is no bigger than a typical regional bank in the United States (the sort now considered too small for global financial markets, and merging furiously).
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