But our passion goes beyond this and focuses on: how do you systematically help management and organizations get to a higher-place on this S-curve?
They also aspire to a higher place in society's pecking order, but in so doing force others in the rat race to run faster to keep up.
Mr Osborne said pension, education and welfare reform was helping to make the UK a more competitive economy, while cuts to corporation tax and higher-rate tax were making the country a more attractive place to do business.
It also urges men and women to share the joys and burdens of family life and calls on society to place a higher priority on supporting caregiving work.
Obviously, they don't place a higher value on what this hotel has to offer than they would place upon a room at that lesser property.
So Silicon Valley seems to be a place where all the preconditions for higher density are in place.
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Hansbrough and Lighty are seniors so they had no choice but the trend should make future collegians lean to staying another year in school rather than coming out early since NBA scouts and general managers seem to place a higher value on the raw international players, who may be three to four years from making the roster.
It feels natural and can be seen as a representation of where phones may and ought to be headed, to a place where they predict and judge your intent using a higher level of intelligence than the usual impassive expectation of conventional input.
Crude oil bulls have gained upside near-term technical momentum recently, to suggest that a market low is in place and that prices can continue to trend higher.
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Crude oil bulls have gained good upside near-term technical momentum recently, to suggest that a market low is in place and that prices can now trend sideways to higher.
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Since insurance companies can and do turn down individuals who apply for coverage if they're in less-than-perfect health, many states have set up high-risk pools to give them a place they can get insurance, even if they have to pay substantially higher premiums.
Normally falling bond yields lead to rising equity prices as investors place a higher value on future earnings, but this effect has been conspicuous by its absence in the current bear market.
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Knockoffs are a good place to start, but Ranbaxy has a higher ambition: to become an innovator in its own right.
Properties in popular vacation areas usually tend to see higher than average appreciation, so there may be a time when you want to cash in and find a new place to stay.
The new era may place a higher value on finding practical ways to improve the workings of vast bureaucracies, and most of McKinsey's clients are large multinational companies and government departments.
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However, a higher close on Friday would begin to suggest a market low is in place.
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To break the cycle of failure, we must initiate behavior change out of a place of self-acceptance and a desire to enjoy a higher quality of life.
Knowing this safety net will fall into place, you might be able to withdraw a higher percentage of your savings earlier in retirement than you would otherwise, says Jason Scott, managing director of the Retiree Research Center at Financial Engines Inc.
In other words, renters have been hit with both fewer housing option and higher costs when they do finally find a place that they want to rent.
His lawyers filed a 49-page petition asking the Supremes to examine his claim that he was tried in the wrong place and that prosecutors should have been forced to meet a higher standard of proof on that point.
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"By providing this protection we avoid the risk, however small, that some students will choose to forego a gap year in 2005 and thus place extra pressure on places in the higher education system for the year, " he said.
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One way of obtaining higher performance from people is to move from viewing work as a place or a task to viewing work as a set of results that need to be accomplished, and that someone is responsible for.
The IoD argues that a graduate tax would place an extra burden on employers because graduates would expect higher wages to compensate.
With 25 points for a win, the German therefore needed to take the chequered flag in first place and hope Alonso finished no higher than fifth.
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Higher education is a magical place: there is a lot of diversity and the power of education to change society's problems is a captivating argument.
Burley knows that expectations are higher now than at any time for a number of years after Scotland went close to denying France and Italy a place at the Euro 2008 finals.
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She recently set up a bank account to save for their higher educations, and one day she hopes to buy or build a house so they'll always have a place to call home.
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