But what you said bothers me, and I want to make sure that doesn't happen again because I value our relationship.
But, he says, it's actually pretty easy for you to do small things that will convey to each other -- and to the kids -- how much you value your relationship.
The ruling Civic Platform party and the opposition both value a strong relationship with Washington.
From there, these GE and customer teams create plans to increase the mutual value of the relationship.
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Small in any case, but clearly more value in the relationship with China.
"Red Hat and others are saying that if you buy this product, you get quality assurance and the value of a relationship, " he says.
But the Justice Department put a damper on the value of that relationship last year with the conditions it attached to the Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger.
And they no doubt value a good relationship with the president.
The value of that relationship was put to the test in 2012 when Tiffany announced in May that the partnership was in danger of ending.
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On the other hand, the Russians will not push their support for the Northern Alliance too far because they value their new relationship with the United States much more.
We value our essential relationship with the U.K., as well as our relationship with the European Union, which makes critical contributions to peace, prosperity, and security in Europe and around the world.
Other items of value include its billing relationship with 132 carriers, and a developer community with ties into emerging markets, where Microsoft is relatively weak.
We should be measuring the quantitative, transactional part of our business, but we should also recognize the unmeasurable value of the qualitative, relationship-based element.
Again, I think is a show of respect for the value that we put on that relationship.
Given how intertwined Alipay and Taobao are, and given that we assign significant value to it, is that relationship at risk?
Some are already inserting themselves between incumbent banks and their customers, in effect hijacking the relationship and reducing the value of the banks' consumer franchises.
The answers to what experience customers value most or what type of relationship they want with their vendors will never be found in Salesforce.com, Marketo or Eloqua, on Twitter, in some Big Data application, or via email.
This shift in thinking around the nature of the relationship and the potential value derived from it (that competitive edge) has them engaging earlier in their process, at the conception and architecture design phase of their projects, rather than once they have the specification developed.
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If value is the threshold of a community relationship, values are the foundation.
They go the extra step of offering the customer tailored information about how they can get more value out of their card and their relationship with American Express.
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Though options generally have a lengthy exercise period to allow the holders to see if the shares are increasing in value, upon termination of the employment relationship or as the option nears expiration, the holder may have to make a quick investment decision.
More exactly, it is a form of relationship of immense and irreplaceable value to a few of the people we seek to help, and these few have their access severely curtailed by the use of visits to meet the needs of many, whose needs could be better met through other kinds of encounters.
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Prospective students are now considering a much wider range of options and are paying attention to the relationship between cost, price and value.
Middlemen, brokers and other facilitators used within various customer relationship and delivery processes have less value and can be designed out when intimacy with customers and patients can help produce the right offer at the right time and place.
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"There would be real value in establishing a more open and honest relationship between banks and their customers on what they get, how much it costs and whether others are offering better value for money, " said Mike O'Connor, chief executive of watchdog Consumer Focus.
And what does their relationship tell us about how we should value art and each other?
What differentiates our analysis over existing work is that we were able to go beyond mere correlations and establish causation in the relationship between corporate governance measures and firm value.
The only good thing about Motel 6 is its potential value as a Cornell case study about the direct relationship between bad hotel sales and marketing and bad hotel security.
"He does increase significantly the number of people that watch on television and that plays into our long-term relationship with our television partners and the value of television rights, " he said.
But history shows that the power position in the business value chain usually goes to the player that controls the customer relationship.
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