adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a corporate client (= a big company or a group of companies )
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Our law firm represents numerous corporate clients.
corporate crime (= involving businesses )
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Those responsible for corporate crime often escape punishment.
corporate entertaining (= for business reasons )
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The hotel is used for corporate entertaining .
corporate hospitality
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the use of a yacht for corporate hospitality
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
affair
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Tony Armstrong, director of corporate affairs at Northern Rock, defended the company's poor performance.
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Specialists such as those in public and corporate affairs or financial public relations can expect even higher salaries.
body
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As a lecturer, Mr. Page became a member of the university which is a corporate body regulated by Royal Charter.
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General Motors provides but one of many examples of that malady in the corporate body .
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Corporate bodies Numbers in brackets indicate that a corporate body or its activities are discussed in the document concerned.
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Being a representative of a corporation is difficult and partly dependent on status within the corporate body .
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It is not a separate corporate body distinct from the dominant social elites.
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We are considering the rights of individuals as against the rights of the state and of corporate bodies .
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Because, she said, she wanted to devolve power to the individual, not to corporate bodies .
client
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They can not at the same time absorb and spread the credit risks of their corporate clients as well.
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The needs of private personal injury clients may be very different to those of insurers and corporate clients.
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Porter Monday and begin advising corporate clients on how to lobby the government.
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At the moment the product is restricted to interest rates and to medium or big corporate clients .
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He represented major corporate clients , from BankAmerica Corp. to Crowley Maritime.
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The two companies have used discounting to pry corporate clients from each other in what today is a domestic duopoly.
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Gerald Ford shills for corporate clients .
crime
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Indifference rather than intention may be the cause of greater human suffering, particularly with regard to corporate crime .
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This raging epidemic of corporate crime is nothing new.
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In order to be effective, the level of intervention to regulate corporate crime has to be organizational rather than individual.
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The practice fosters corporate crime , and the governing ethic-that public service ought not be parlayed into private profitis often eclipsed.
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There are numerous cases of corporate crime causing injury and death.
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Although the crimes of criminal corporations are clearly serious, they should be kept analytically separate from corporate crime.
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The final glimmer comes from recent attempts to develop novel strategies for controlling corporate crime .
culture
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An individual's scope for modifying it will inevitably be heavily influenced by site and corporate culture .
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In the organizational hierarchy of the past, middle managers were the people who remembered things, who passed on corporate culture .
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Excellent companies have strong corporate cultures and organisational values.
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What is less clear is whether these are national cultural differences, differences in the use of language and/or corporate culture influences.
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Flocks of executives entered the company from competing firms, bringing different styles, values, and corporate cultures with them.
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The management of corporate culture is expensive of time to do it - the endless meetings that people participate in.
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Some corporate cultures are so rigid that they require absolute obedience to the corporate line.
customer
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Large corporate customers pay interest on overdrafts at the bank's base rate plus 1%.
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Rosenbluth Travel redefined its business by creating new information services that were attractive to its corporate customers .
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All types of insurances are handled both for personal and corporate customers .
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The Commonwealth Bank immediately announced that its rate for leading corporate customers would be reduced from 16.5 percent to 15.5 percent.
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Some of Hong Kong's biggest companies want their waste properly treated, to please corporate customers in greener-minded countries.
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For example, large corporate customers have the option of volume usage discounts.
earnings
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Nor is there any sign of a pick-up in corporate earnings this year.
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If the economy falters in 1996, corporate earnings will be hard-pressed to match the performance of the past few years.
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At the moment, optimism over interest rates is being offset by pessimism about the direction of corporate earnings .
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He expects stocks to continue to march higher, benefiting from falling rates and decent corporate earnings .
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According to Mazur, corporate earnings here are healthy.
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But the relief was expected to be short-lived, because the economy and corporate earnings are still hurting.
executive
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How would he and Georgina change their lifestyle after all those years as a corporate executive ?
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How do you measure how good corporate executives are at communicating and being honest?
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A fat ego can blind a corporate executive to reality like a bad cataract.
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Which is why corporate executives are turning to speech coaches in droves.
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The Black-Scholes model also is widely used for valuing the stock options in the compensation packages of corporate executives .
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For a long time, corporate executives felt that the Internet was only an academic toy for bored graduate students.
finance
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But, more generally, mergers represented the development of skills in the arts of corporate finance .
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Companies had long been the domain of commercial bankers and the corporate finance and equity departments of investment banks.
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So, for the right person, corporate finance is both a high-risk and high-reward career option.
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Then, in a breath, she said limp-wristed, overly groomed fellows on small salaries worked in corporate finance .
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He was joined by Anthony Fry, corporate finance partner in the Crawley office.
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Total fees and commissions fell to $ 204 million from $ 192 million, as corporate finance and lending fees fell.
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It may thus be that a client is a corporate finance client for some activities but not for others.
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Conventional corporate finance leads us to believe that debt financing is usually cheaper than equity financing.
governance
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Such reports can help to demonstrate publicly the company's commitment to high standards of corporate governance .
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In a recent survey, finance directors were asked what change they would most like to see in corporate governance .
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This culminated in the publication of the Cadbury report on corporate governance in May.
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They are likely to run from the sort of fight that makes good corporate governance stick.
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Fundamentally, the debate is about how to ensure effective corporate governance .
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It is appropriate that I here take the opportunity of welcoming the thrust of recent authoritative reports detailing guidelines for good corporate governance .
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We will monitor the further developments and pronouncements of the several bodies presently addressing the subjects of corporate governance and accounting standards.
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Last month the Cadbury Committee published its finalised report on corporate governance .
headquarters
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Moreover, the specialists are found in operations, not at corporate headquarters .
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The emerging trends for corporate headquarters staff are clear.
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Time and again we have seen large country houses taken over for institutional use, whether as corporate headquarters or hospitals.
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But as sales figures at the branch continued to improve, the thinking at corporate headquarters gradually started to come around.
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Havana has shifted its corporate headquarters .
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Louis, the corporate headquarters , is the only city named.
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Most corporate headquarters and bank branches in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were open Tuesday after partial closures yesterday.
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At Starbucks' corporate headquarters , the signature mermaid placard toppled into the parking lot below.
hospitality
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This buys them a livery package, plus use of the yacht for corporate hospitality and during Land Rover Cowes Week.
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A new concept in corporate hospitality is roadshows.
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Sailing as corporate hospitality took off about a decade ago, with companies looking for a new way of hosting events.
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The page following features a big and bold advertisement for corporate hospitality and entertainment.
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We have agents and corporate hospitality .
identity
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The Rentokil corporate identity has been updated for the 90's.
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What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity .
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The corporate identity image has been slow to disappear, with the old standard liveries lingering even on Intercity services.
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This last, where a new corporate identity has been developed and recently launched, is particularly important in international markets.
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Instinctive acceptance of a corporate identity for this constituency forced the party into an integrative role on two distinct but related fronts.
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The purpose of the letterhead is to produce a corporate identity .
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By the beginning of the eighteenth century the diplomats appeared to possess a kind of corporate identity .
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The projection of a corporate identity .
image
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Public relations and the building of corporate image are dealt with in a later chapter.
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The tradition of dressing up a corporate image in print runs deep at Investor Insight and its affiliates.
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It will make a great difference to our - er - corporate image , I feel sure.
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When analysed at this more fundamental level, the database will also give clear guidelines about overall corporate image .
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Also used to denote a specially styled company name designed as part of a corporate image .
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Any comments on uniforms or the Bank's corporate image in general would be welcomed by Bob McInnes.
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Benetton's advertising and photography is integrally linked to their corporate image making.
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Our newly created marketing team has identified customer requirements in major markets as well as helping us to redevelop our corporate image .
income
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They have not pumped up taxes; personal and corporate income taxes have remained at reasonable levels.
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The corporate income tax base was broadened while the tax rate was reduced.
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An increase in the top corporate income tax rate to 36 percent from the current 34 percent.
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For example, we have already cited the disagreement among the experts as to the incidence of the corporate income tax.
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Recall from Chapter 7 that the corporate income tax entails a problem of double taxation.
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That part of corporate income which is paid out as dividends is taxed twice.
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Exhibit 2. 1 summarizes the current federal corporate income tax rate.
ladder
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It is no accident that people who are driven to climb corporate ladders have parents who believe ladder climbing is important.
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The more that you let the former influence the corporate ladder , the less effective you and your company will be.
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There are many who rise up the corporate ladder by avoiding such risks.
life
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But his major contribution to the corporate life of the city was his work for the relief of the poor.
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So can a person caged in corporate life begin to assume huge anxieties about petty annoyances.
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The landowners had not been paid, the company went bankrupt and thereafter spent the rest of its corporate life in Chancery.
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Some well might advance further in corporate life than the OLs.
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More money makes corporate life easier.
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By doing so, they were able to meet the demands of corporate life and parent at the same time.
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For Lochlin and Sandy Reidy, corporate life and family life make a perfectly fine blend, and they should know.
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I even became so desperate that I thought of returning to corporate life .
management
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It all adds up to a better deal, for your managers, your training budget and for effective corporate management development.
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Individual decisions of corporate management may still turn out to have been wrong.
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Lost customers, dissatisfied corporate management , and lost data also were deemed significant.
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Internal customers were corporate management , marketing, and order processors.
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It impressed no-one at corporate management level.
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For corporate management , cost and productivity benchmarking identified work organization as the key to regaining their competitive advantage.
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In other authorities corporate management was combined with a new system of area management.
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When that viewpoint is outside the school it is of assistance to corporate management to weigh up its authority and seriousness.
manager
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He had risen to the post of corporate manager at the Ermine Business Park branch in Huntingdon.
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To some modern corporate managers , the unions, like steam-driven locomotives, are historical relics.
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But whatever its extent the power of corporate managers poses a problem of legitimacy.
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I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager .
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The power conferred upon corporate managers by the business company was potentially unchecked and hence illegitimate within the framework of liberal democracy.
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The corporatist countervision argues that corporate managers are obliged to weigh the interests of a whole range of different constituents.
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Fiduciary duties depend for their enforcement on the shareholders taking action against the wrongdoing corporate managers .
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There are two views of the purposes for which corporate managers will use their expertise.
member
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Oki was the last remaining corporate member of the Mass860 consortium formed to support the chip and garner a software following.
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As regards membership, the region now has 93 corporate members and 56 personal members.
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Therefore, they perceived themselves as corporate members and experienced its power as essentially benevolent.
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Now the corporate member is the norm. 5.
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Constitution Membership of the council is open only to corporate members of the Association.
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Elections Only corporate members may participate in elections, either as candidate, proposer, seconder or voter.
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Any corporate member of a branch may nominate a candidate.
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The vacancies may be filled by any corporate member of the Association regardless of location.
network
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For all practical purposes, it has a nationwide corporate network , just like the big firms.
plan
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How are the project plans aligned with the corporate plan?
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The corporate plan is therefore built up along the same lines as the organisational hierarchy.
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This was particularly true of government approval of corporate plans during the 1970s.
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These come into play after corporate plans have been formulated and are concerned with implementing them.
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When I say corporate plan , I don't necessarily mean you have to live with it rigidly.
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You can usually tell an organisation that has a clear corporate plan but very little vision about the future.
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Non-financial criteria will be used to ensure that the potential new products are such as to contribute to the corporate plan .
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But two years ago the idea popped up again, as part of the Lucas Aerospace workers' alternative corporate plan .
planning
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It is important not to read Quinn as calling for the destruction of formal corporate planning or rational analysis.
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In addition to the informal discussions, corporate planning departments require knowledge of the business environments for their formal roles in the planning process.
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The directors of the seven remaining companies agreed to interviews of their corporate planning managers or themselves.
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And this normally will not be in some remote centralised corporate planning department.
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Consequently, the arguments presented in this section should not be used to dismiss centralized corporate planning .
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In fact, many corporate planning departments were significantly reduced in size or even abandoned around this time.
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The organisation of the planning process tends to be done in corporate head office by a central corporate planning department.
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Nevertheless, whether corporate planning has become a reality is a separate issue.
power
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The rise of corporate power is a direct result of governments' actively adopting neoliberal economic policies.
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Broadcast television is available only to monstrous corporate powers .
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What troubles their detractors, however, is the corporate power with which they have become inextricably linked.
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As a man of corporate power , he was also exceedingly visible.
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But it is surely not hard to see that consumer choice is an inadequate means of curbing corporate power .
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Even the cardinals' corporate powers lay in the future in 1215.
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It does not say anything explicit about the legitimacy of corporate power in relation to society generally.
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This is because the more modern justification for corporate power is assumed.
profit
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Consumers, investors and workers have all threatened corporate profit in different ways, with varying degrees of success.
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Interest rates are low, inflation seems whipped, job growth is strong, corporate profits are soaring.
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Restrictions on the repatriation of private and corporate profits and capital were also lifted.
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Meanwhile, private investment will remain strong, propelled by a 14 % increase in corporate profits in 1995.
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The dashed lines show the effect of the corporate profits tax, to which we now turn.
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Analysts generally agree that the fundamental economic factors that produce corporate profits remain strong.
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With discounting becoming rampant, what is good for the consumer will be bad for corporate profits .
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Finally, one indicator suggested interest rates may be headed still higher, eventually eating into corporate profits .
sector
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There will be no outcry from the corporate sector about the disarray in the accountancy profession.
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Hence, everyone is financially vulnerable and insecure except those close to the center of the corporate sector .
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As remarked earlier, to treat the corporate sector as acting perfectly competitively is a particularly unsatisfactory assumption.
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Lower interest rates designed to pep up the corporate sector threaten to add more fuel to the consumer boom.
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This extreme version of the distrust of government has often been manipulated by the corporate sector to block passage of government regulation.
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So we are now getting it back into the corporate sector .
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For example, the modelling of the corporate sector , particularly allowing for imperfect competition, is likely to pose formidable problems.
sponsor
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The Festival Trust represents many corporate sponsors , whose commitment has been crucial in developing this international celebration of the arts.
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Gage proposed cutting costs by using volunteers for the labor and corporate sponsors for the equipment.
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So check with your hotel or corporate sponsor in advance about possible child-care arrangements.
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The rest of the journey, a reward for super-achievement, will be underwritten by corporate sponsors .
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Exhibits set up by corporate sponsors fill most of the space in Centennial Olympic Park downtown.
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Amway, the door-to-door retailing giant, became a corporate sponsor , as did the E.&038;.
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And 3Com just inked its long-awaited deal to become the corporate sponsor of Candlestick Park through January 2000.
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The agreement also gives the supervisors the final say over the corporate sponsor should the contract between the 49ers and 3Com unravel.
strategy
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States must choose, in industrial policy as in corporate strategy , between diversification and specialisation.
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However, goals in Workplace 2000 will be dictated by competitive require-ments and corporate strategy .
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He stresses that formal planning can only be one of the many building blocks which determine corporate strategy .
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In their view, corporate strategies fail because they consider problems in the external environment but not those internal to the organization.
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How they strike a balance between the two is at the heart of corporate strategy .
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This belief will call for radical changes in employment, management and corporate strategy .
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Patents on life-forms are the key to this corporate strategy .
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Figure 2 contrasts competitive and corporate strategy .
structure
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The firm's corporate structure was flattened, just as business-school gurus recommend.
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What they envision is nothing short of a new corporate structure , in which accounting and other functions are outsourced.
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Although this picture no longer accurately reflects the reality of many modern corporate structures , legal rules still rest upon the old idea.
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The foamless Concept could be the big new product for a company with a new corporate structure and a new management.
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In the post-Bains era corporate structures have been widely adopted.
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This task is actually easier outside the old hierarchical corporate structure , where information was compartmentalized and unrelated contexts kept strictly separate.
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Many companies have considerably slimmed down and changed their corporate structures .
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Idei is overhauling a corporate structure Sony introduced in mid-1994 when its fortunes were at a low ebb.
tax
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Where T is the proportional corporate tax rate. 2.
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According to Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation, corporate tax breaks in the 1995 fiscal year might reach 60 billion.
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The great corporate tax rebate mirrors the great corporate handout.
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At the same time the general corporate tax rate was cut from 46 to its present 34 percent.
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The existence of a mark-up has to be taken into account when considering the response to a corporate tax .
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The investee corporation must pay corporate taxes on its income before paying out dividends-this is the first tax.
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We are considering the effect of increasing an already existing corporate tax .
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The first day of the conference is to be devoted to corporate tax issues affecting national and multinational corporations.
welfare
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Among others pledging to fight corporate welfare were consumer activist Ralph Nader, Sens.
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But this raises the politically touchy issue of corporate welfare .
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And the administration tactfully distanced itself from Reich when he said any welfare reform ought to include corporate welfare as well.
world
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Drucker selects the metaphor of orchestra as the model for the corporate world to follow but the conclusions are much the same.
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If the corporate world is wrong, some spectacular failures could result.
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Second comes his adoration for the corporate world .
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Scores of less famous graduates ascended to the top levels of the financial and corporate worlds .
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Finniston maintains there is inescapable evidence that the corporate world has become more selfish and self-seeking.
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Dad, a Dartmouth graduate, was very successful in the corporate world .
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Laing feels the problem is exacerbated by the tendency today for the corporate world to live in the short term.
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Adams' focus on the corporate world is a reflection of his own life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a huge corporate farm
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Ad campaigns are used to both bolster sales and improve corporate image.
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Fisher, 37, will be responsible for corporate planning.
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The company's moving its corporate headquarters from St. Louis to Atlanta.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A growing number had already been worrying about the social and corporate consequences of such massive restructurings.
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All types of insurances are handled both for personal and corporate customers.
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Prioritizing corporate crime has to be set in context.
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The emerging trends for corporate headquarters staff are clear.
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There is nobody at the helm of the corporate ship, because there is no helm.
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This book deals mainly with the purchase of business assets from a corporate vendor by a corporate purchaser.