Difficulties that everyday citizens (and voters) have with evaluating the merits of the most well-known financial services firms are multiplied when the challenge is to form a judgement on the long-term value provided by unknown, entrepreneurial firms who engage in financial transactions that are far removed from their own everyday lives.

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The BBC's Panorama programme learnt the youngster was well known to Kirklees social services and had been put on the "at-risk" register years before she disappeared.

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The collapse of unmetered services by well-known companies is having a knock-on effect.

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It is likely the most well-known and popular this category of services, which are also referred to as ubiquitous human computing in academic circles.

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Commerce is well known in the New York area for consumer-friendly services like weekend banking hours and coin-sorting machines.

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Yes, of course: the difficulty of measuring productivity in services, now most of the economy, is well-known.

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Julie Seddon, the director for customers and communities at the borough council, says in the report the IHWO is a "well respected" and "experienced" local community organisation known for "delivering a range of services for local communities".

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It's taking advantage of the Alternative Business Structures (ABS) law, which was known as Tesco law, in the expectation that the supermarket chain would move into legal services as well as so much else.

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