To take another example, if users of public transport in London were told that in future all their trips would be logged by the authorities, they would revolt.

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The French luxury brands group, PPR , provides yet another example of a business beginning to take biodiversity seriously.

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Take another example that the senators pointed to: Apple, as do many other multinational companies, uses a technique called transfer pricing.

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Take another example of a Business Intelligence tool to analyze how a company is performing in sales across multiple territories.

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And take, as another example, Mr Brown's plans to help the low-paid without damaging the incentive to work.

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