The Nepalese government receives substantial Chinese aid and uses the relationship to balance Indian influence.

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How, then, can we practically differentiate between the life-giving, relationship-infusing, beneficial uses of money and the relationship-destroying, life-draining worship of money?

FORBES: Money Vs. People

Nationwide, the mutual savings bank in the UK, uses Portrait software for customer relationship management.

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Steve uses three applications (accounting, manufacturing and customer relationship management) to run most of his business.

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In the last year or two he has seen a sharp rise in the use of electronic sentiment monitoring in customer relationship management (CRM) and in travel and tourism TripAdvisor uses Lexalytics to generate its scores.

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Rogers said he expects that relationship to continue despite the Feb. 6 deal by Liberty Global, which uses its own settop boxes, to buy Virgin.

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John Russell, a former chief art critic for the New York Times, uses this transatlantic steamboat correspondence to form the core of a book in which he explores the tense, often exciting relationship between dealer and artist as well as that between father and son.

ECONOMIST: Post-Impressionists