The challenge for her company, the Oakland, California-based Mannequin Madness, was keeping track of an ever-changing inventory of heads, torsos and limbs, so it could meet the varied needs of a diverse client list of clothing boutiques and department stores.
Nobody seems to be keeping track--or paying attention to phones hooked up to the wrong rate plan, leading to punitive charges for extra minutes.
Track everything -- While keeping a food journal is important for all dieters, it is particularly important if you don't have much weight to lose, as even small, seemingly inconsequential things like a slice of cheese or mayo on a sandwich, a larger size non-fat latte, or a second glass of wine, juice or soda, can interfere with weight loss.
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London (CNN) -- If keeping track of friends was the first wave of social media, the next may be all about hooking up with strangers.
The name alone is enough to raise eyebrows, but wait until you see the special features: a biorhythm calculator, a fatness function that calculates a user's height-to-weight ratio, a calendar for keeping track of your menstrual cycle and a calorie-counting function.
In November, the Government Accountability Office's head of acquisition management reminded a congressional panel that eight years into the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the U.S. still has trouble keeping track of contractors--a problem with severe cost implications.
There's also the more expected bits -- things like keeping track of your motorcar's location in order to retrieve it after a long, confusing day at Disneyland, but the real magic here is the promise of what's to come.
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They have excellent track records for keeping their detailed trip-planning resources up to date, and are not affiliated with the Disney brand, enabling them to provide unbiased recommendations for saving money at the various parks.
By replacing hundreds of uninformed calories with handfuls of opinionated PointsPlus and giving you cloud-synced ways of keeping track of them on all your devices, you make it simpler and easier to be mindful of what you are eating.
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The Home Affairs committee has published its own register of PCCs, claiming "no-one in government is keeping track" of them.
The report notes that the findings did not mean that the equipment did not exist or was not "being used usefully somewhere" - as it could be difficult keeping track of assets being used in war zones.
But business mashps are catching on, and they are likely to be huge at Salesforce, which has 280 business software mashups that offer ways to track eBay sales activity on Salesforce's record-keeping software or ways to tell where clients are using Google maps.
Outside the negotiations, two entirely different groups had also assembled, with a self-appointed brief of keeping the negotiators on track.
One thing that may add to the costs is keeping track of and complying with the ever-changing state of the law.
For companies that have barely bothered their heads about intra-group prices or interest rates, keeping track, and being able to prove it, will be a real hassle.
Soirees in this storied piece of real estate are held in the classic ballroom which comes complete with chandeliers and a coat-check closet handy for keeping track of a few dozen mink coats or, say, 200 winter overcoats.
Tim Miles, chief veterinary adviser for Britain's RSPCA, said micro-chipping dogs was a better way of keeping track of dogs.
The unemployment rate actually rose, to 9.1%, in May: the rate of job creation is barely keeping track with the natural increase in the working-age population.
In order to respond to these challenges in a consistent and sustainable manner, education systems need careful planning, programming and budgeting, as well mid-term reviews with the aim to keeping on track and achieving the set educational development goals.
The second-quarter figure was the lowest since TransUnion started keeping track, in 1999.
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Ligety will spend the offseason hanging out with friends, taking part in other sports such as mountain biking and keeping track of the progress of his favorite basketball team -- the Utah Jazz.
In a later post, I'll assess the short-term options for rescuing Italy and keeping the single currency on track.
The position requires only moderate-term on-the-job training and entails preparing patients and dental equipment and keeping track of inventory and medical records.
So the fact that new weapons programs may take 20 years to reach the field in a political system that operates on two- and four-year cycles is a real threat to keeping those programs on track.
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Examine the market basket of goods or services they purchase over a six-to-twelve-month period and then calculate the margin on each basket, keeping track of discounts and price concessions.
Keeping track of the vast, meandering mix of ancient artifacts and techno-mystic talk makes me yearn for the days when the point was to fight the Covenant because the Covenant was bad.
Software systems should be able to help us do a better job here such as keeping track of who is involved, when something occurred or even detect keywords or meta-data about the project.
Blue Coat's export-auditing system is focused on screening potential buyers before devices are sold, rather than on keeping track of devices once they are deployed, according to people familiar with the company.
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