noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coping strategy (= a way of coping with something )
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Some people use humour as a coping strategy.
a survival strategy
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The best survival strategy is to avoid putting yourself in unnecessary danger.
advertising campaign/strategy
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a major advertising campaign
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the advertising slogan ‘Come alive with Pepsi’
agree a price/plan/strategy etc
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We agreed a new four-year contract.
corporate planning/strategy (= the activity of planning what a big company needs to do to succeed )
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Roche is the man in charge of corporate planning.
devise a strategy
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The region is keen to devise a strategy to develop tourism.
exit strategy
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The President convinced people that he had a workable exit strategy to free his forces from the conflict.
formulate a policy/plan/strategy etc
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He formulated Labour Party education policy in 1922.
long-term plan/strategy/solution
pursue a policy/strategy
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The organization is pursuing a policy of cost cutting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
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In this way, the child learns to expand his/ her range of alternative coping strategies .
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We were designed to have all sorts of alternative strategies to achieve our ends.
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This leaves only two alternative strategies: to flee or to hide.
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In the face of such opposition, those managements with the wit to explore alternative strategies have adopted a range of techniques.
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For many problems, people rely on drugs rather than seeking alternative coping strategies .
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Thus the no-arbitrage condition can be tested with respect to three alternative trading strategies: arbitrage, swaps and trade-the-cheapest.
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In Aden the path forward became clear, the alternative strategy was revealed.
corporate
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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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The test of a competitive strategy is its profitability. Corporate strategy plans the company's cluster of firmlets.
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Patents on life-forms are the key to this corporate strategy .
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The Shorts 360 specialises on the Jersey - Guernsey shuttle service. Corporate strategy is cautious, slow growth.
different
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Rather, the authors have made a selection and described them fully in order to explain and illustrate several different military strategies .
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Microsoft, meanwhile is pursuing a far different on-line strategy of weaving Internet features into its existing product lines.
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Information about the circumstances in which different overtaking strategies are employed will also be collected and analysed.
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If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy .
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She has developed a slightly different coping strategy which involves returning to work at night when it is quieter.
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Maynard Smith tried pitting different genetic strategies against each other in the same way that economists do with different economic strategies.
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On the other hand, a player faced with an Empire army would probably adopt a different strategy altogether.
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Maynard Smith tried pitting different genetic strategies against each other in the same way that economists do with different economic strategies.
economic
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Does government have a community economic development strategy ?
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Maynard Smith tried pitting different genetic strategies against each other in the same way that economists do with different economic strategies.
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What can realistically be accomplished by Community Economic Development strategies and what criteria can be used to determine and evaluate success?
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Dole aides have said the candidate may propose broader income tax cuts later this year as part of his long-range economic strategy .
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Governments can find their economic strategies in tatters when the markets lose confidence and rush for the exit.
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Local economic development strategies divert attention and resources of government away from direct efforts to resolve social problems. 7.
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In bureaucratic terms, Armstrong was the keystone in the arch of Heath's economic strategy from the autumn of 1972.
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Evaluate effectiveness and economic benefit of strategies to prevent emerging infectious diseases.
effective
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This project is expected to contribute to the development of effective health education strategies which are relevant to consumers.
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They identified the pitfalls and defined their goals, and selected effective strategies from the array available to them.
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On the one side are those that suggest that land reform may be an effective development strategy .
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In such situations the most effective managerial strategy may be for the ReD unit to try to gain power within the organization.
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An effective preventive strategy which challenged these interests would seriously disrupt or impose great costs on capitalist producers.
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I am optimistic, therefore, that they can serve as the basis for an effective Mega long-term strategy .
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The marketer must therefore turn his attention to how to identify these factors soas to be able to construct an effective strategy .
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And we can share best practices so that every educator and employer does not have to recreate effective strategies from scratch.
national
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Then it may be able to form a national strategy to match the vision.
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The Pentagon, with a panel of independent experts about to follow, is reviewing national military strategy .
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However, it highlights the clear lack of an agreed national coastal strategy by the Government.
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The national strategy unit, led by Howard Webber and Tim Challans, has fused its contrary voices with diplomatic panache.
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An outline of the current national economic strategy is provided by the Minister of Industry and Commerce.
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The new national strategy must find ways to encourage more challenging and exciting practical science teaching.
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But, first, a distinction should be drawn between national grand strategy , Defence policy and current military strategy.
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The main aim of the meeting was to discuss how to persuade countries to create their own national strategies for biodiversity protection.
new
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But the new strategy threatens not only combatants, but those coordinating attacks.
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But many businesses are devising new strategies as the next millennium closes in.
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Brainwave William Waldegrave, the science minister, unveiled the first new government strategy for science and technology for 21 years.
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The effective use of new power strategies , albeit awkward at first, encourages their use in the future.
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The new national strategy must find ways to encourage more challenging and exciting practical science teaching.
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The new strategy was called flexible response.
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The new strategies of information control target people even more than in the past, aiming to intimidate them into self-censorship.
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A new strategy is clearly needed.
overall
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How much importance was attached to these initiatives in terms of overall company strategy ? 5.
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The 10-year Apple veteran said the company would not unveil an overall Internet strategy at Macworld.
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Changes in personnel reflected shifts in overall public health strategy .
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Moreover, it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy .
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Some banks manage customers' investment portfolios with the customer and/or bank determining overall investment strategy .
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Subjects ranged from site matters to overall company strategy .
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Each practice area strategy should also be consistent with the firm's overall strategy.
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In the meantime, it is presently developing its overall strategy .
political
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What political strategies and tactics are used to influence budget allocations? 6.
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Now, we understand the difference here was largely over political strategy .
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As a political strategy it was highly effective, successfully confronting the medical discourse which lay behind regulation.
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These overhauls were to have been centerpieces of the Kohl political strategy for 1997.
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Few contemporary political strategies are conceived without considerable attention being paid to media considerations.
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Why is he always standing in the back there and taking copious notes if he is not planning and writing political strategy ?
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At first sight it might be quite reasonable for the Labour party to employ the same approach to its political strategy .
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When the action slows, however, the novel bogs down in a lot of talk about military and political strategy .
■ NOUN
business
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The aim of business strategies is competitive success for financial success.
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Newbridge officials said they are working out a business strategy with their prospective partner, whom they declined to name.
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It is worth noting that some writers on business strategy are well aware of this problem.
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What is the role of your work group in helping your company to implement its business strategy ? 9.
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Instead they are supposed to discuss future business strategy .
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At heart, Sanborns remains a solidly middle-of-the-road company-conservative in its business strategy , middle-class in its marketing approach.
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Similarly, other business strategy questions now debated in the boardrooms will define who will be successful in the future.
development
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An emphasis on deciding development strategies at local level, in the light of local circumstances.
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Local economic development strategies divert attention and resources of government away from direct efforts to resolve social problems. 7.
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On the one side are those that suggest that land reform may be an effective development strategy .
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Technology development strategies exhibit a fundamental logical contradiction.
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What can realistically be accomplished by Community Economic Development strategies and what criteria can be used to determine and evaluate success?
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How were local economic development strategies carried out, what were their outcomes and impacts, and who were their beneficiaries?
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The development strategy can be further controlled by specifying a parameter and temporarily removing nodes satisfying from the list of active nodes.
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Technology development strategies are designed to pick technology winners.
investment
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However, it is an approach that conflicts with traditional investment strategy .
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Traders and institutions value anonymity because it enables them to pursue investment strategies without being thwarted by competitors, the groups said.
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Each involves subtle differences in the investment strategy of the parties involved.
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Indeed, some of the largest institutional money managers catering to wealthy individual investors advertise tax-related investment strategies based on computer models.
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The liquidation of the Portfolio removed the necessity to re-examine the investment strategy .
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Ralph wants faster growth, so Steinmetz recommends a tougher investment strategy with an 8 percent return.
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Some banks manage customers' investment portfolios with the customer and/or bank determining overall investment strategy .
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There was no clear pattern to the investment strategies employed by the fund managers who scored best.
marketing
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Do firms employ investment related marketing strategies ?
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Using a specific example, show how opinion leaders might be identified and influenced through a marketing strategy .
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Under the new marketing strategy , Cray Computer will offer the Cray-3 in two-, four- and eight-processor configurations.
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Mr Brown is responsible for marketing strategy , programme development and quality control, while Mr Morse will administer day-to-day operations.
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The marketing strategies of banks have been aimed in some cases at attracting young customers, especially the student market.
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But only 11-12 percent had prepared a formal marketing strategy or employed a marketing consultant in the past year.
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Companies must target significant sectors for their world marketing strategies to attack.
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Research can help a company to develop its global marketing strategy .
■ VERB
adopt
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Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time.
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Thus far, Dole has shown no signs of adopting such a strategy .
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Companies which utilize an aggressive sales policy, based on personal selling, are said to be adopting a push strategy .
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The dental museum has adopted a different strategy .
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Several kinds of insects adopt a similar strategy .
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The parliamentary debate on the Report showed the Home Secretary adopting a two-pronged strategy in his response.
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In the few years that followed, Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing.
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On the other hand, a player faced with an Empire army would probably adopt a different strategy altogether.
agree
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The Link group acts as a forum for the major environmental issues and agrees strategies to combat existing problems.
develop
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He developed a strategy skilfully designed to establish intelligentsia leadership over this revolt.
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Women are subjects also, but they have had to develop another strategy to maintain subjectivity.
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Too little is done to implement existing preventive knowledge or to develop preventive strategies known to be effective.
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Since joining the company in March, Carpenter has developed a strategy to fend off Oakley.
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However, these very skills may inhibit working through the important intellectual issues embedded in developing the strategy .
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Encourage work-inhibited students to develop their own strategies to improve their own efforts.
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Professor Budd's remarks echo a widespread belief in the City that the Government needs to develop a credible monetary strategy .
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In the 1980s, the state had developed an aggressive economic-development strategy to support key industries.
devise
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To this end he had devised a new strategy: the assault was not to be made by men but by guns.
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But many businesses are devising new strategies as the next millennium closes in.
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Researching and devising a strategy to build a smaller, smarter civil service is much, much harder work.
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Uppermost among them will be how they begin to devise a strategy to defeat a man who is both boxer and puncher.
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Rather than worrying about causing a problem, your focus should be on devising a strategy to correct one.
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Chelsea chairman Ken Bates has thus devised a two-pronged strategy to beat Cabra.
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After considerable grumbling and frustration, Roosevelt devised a different strategy for influencing the court.
discuss
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As you discuss strategy , address the following three dimensions.
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The process began in January 1942 when Churchill and his military leaders came to Washington to discuss strategy .
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The chairman of the division and I discussed endlessly what our strategy should be.
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Shortly after her election, the local board met to discuss goals and strategies for the year.
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Instead they are supposed to discuss future business strategy .
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After the Pensacola incident he contacted Ellie Smeal, offering to discuss litigation strategies .
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They were there to discuss strategies for slowing down the whirlwind of globalisation.
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Strengths and weaknesses were discussed , strategy plotted.
follow
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Note that the average payment following the optimal strategy is around three times greater than the average payment following the myopic strategy.
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You can follow the same strategy with a preschooler.
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Note that the average payment following the optimal strategy is around three times greater than the average payment following the myopic strategy.
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Basically, telcos are following two strategies in their expansion: in-territory and out-of-territory.
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It was found that key characteristics was by far the most popular strategy , followed by realist strategy.
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I taught them the importance of structure but also that structure has to follow strategy .
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Ptarmigan seems to be following a strategy similar to that adopted by Mr Wilbraham in 1989.
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Now, in a new arena, Harmon appears to be following a similar strategy .
formulate
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The researcher is there to help the agency formulate the right strategy and the right advertising solution.
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They therefore had decided to wait and see how the operations progressed before attempting to formulate subsequent war strategy .
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Its aim was to examine scientific evidence on climate change, assess environmental and socio-economic impacts and formulate realistic response strategies .
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The exercise itself actively helps you to formulate your aims and strategy for bargaining.
implement
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Only one other carpet company has been identified as implementing this strategy .
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Some RBOCs are actually implementing only one strategy , some are implementing both.
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From that you will develop a training strategy and then be responsible for deciding how to implement that strategy.
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The organizations in this study were implementing new strategies and introducing major restructuring.
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It also raises some of the problems involved in deciding how best to implement an organization's strategy .
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What is the role of your work group in helping your company to implement its business strategy ? 9.
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Finally, problems and possibilities for implementing these strategies politically will be identified.
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Most of the bosses questioned the new managers explicitly about how they intended to implement the new company strategies: 1 Costs!
market
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To woo customers, the company has devised a unique marketing strategy .
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During the first year after the marketing strategy took effect, the number of park visitors jumped by 10 percent.
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The previous commissioner spent months with us, analysing our game plans and marketing strategy .
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Word-of-mouth is their primary marketing strategy .
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Working with the Sales and Marketing Departments to devise creative marketing strategies and campaigns; planning and supporting promotional initiatives and opportunities.
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The companies' marketing strategies strongly depend upon effective first-line sales managers.
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To answer these challenges, any budding access provider will need to develop strong marketing strategies and programs to support future growth.
plan
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Before you confirm a venue, plan your strategy for seat occupation in the main hall.
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Was the planned strategy carried out, and has it resulted in the objective being met?
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With companies now planning their entertainment strategy for the coming year, some will be looking for a more exciting day out.
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Even if a perfect solution is not found, the child goes from being passive to planning a strategy and eventually acting.
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Can land reform become part of a landscape-level land use planning strategy committed to social as well as environmental justice?
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So in the I-way, careful planning and strategy must be coupled with flawless execution.
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It never quite worked out as Lenin planned , but his strategy was inherited by Communists after him.
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They were expected to plan strategy and execute programs for their work units.
pursue
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Instead, they pursue a novel identity strategy designed to side-step the potentially problematic issue of nationality.
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If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy .
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The personalized nature of disputes caused litigants to pursue all possible legal strategies even when it would have been more rational to compromise.
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Traders and institutions value anonymity because it enables them to pursue investment strategies without being thwarted by competitors, the groups said.
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Small wonder then, that private financiers did not pursue this strategy .
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To return control to those who work down where the rubber meets the road, entrepreneurial leaders pursue a variety of strategies .
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For lawyers or accountants the notion of pursuing a flexible strategy towards employment makes a lot of sense.
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Key executives make a commitment to pursue a new strategy , only to return to business as usual.
use
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We decided to use a left-to-right strategy in the experiments described in Chapters 4, 5 and 6.
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Like many corporations, Hewlett-Packard also guards against wild currency swings and huge losses on overseas deals by using cautious trading strategies .
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Tackling truancy Schools reported using a range of strategies to tackle absence from school.
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The most frequently used strategy was develop alliances and coalitions.
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Note, we do not restrict player A to use a linear strategy .
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Preoperational children rarely use a strategy based on reasoning.
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They must present their arguments to the public, using whatever honest strategies they consider appropriate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a strategy to reduce the level of teenage smoking
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learning strategies
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Murdoch bought several TV stations, as part of his strategy for building a media empire.
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The company needs to focus on strategy .
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The government has no long-term strategy for reducing crime.
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the President's long-term economic strategy
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The rebels' strategy of guerrilla warfare has been remarkably successful.
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We need a new strategy for increasing our sales in Europe.
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We will continue to update our sales strategy .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But ultimately, Ryan said, this would not prove a wise strategy .
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Events and issues shape the strategy .
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If Son has a grand strategy for extracting more value out of his ragbag of assets, it is hard to spot.
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Public entrepreneurs use a number of basic strategies to build mission-driven organizations.
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Secondly, it will evaluate the impact of government economic strategies within each area.
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The strategies in Axelrod's computer were definitely unconscious.
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The final score of a strategy was the sum of the points it gained against all the other strategies.
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Try these strategies to prevent these words from ever being uttered:-First, make all rules absolutely clear!