The Chinese emphasis on personal connections (guanxi) makes it hard to distinguish between business-as-usual and corruption.
With Russia and France anxious to get back to oil-business-as-usual, Iraq tested the council's resolve to destruction.
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That this is often approximately true is why DSGE models perform well enough in a business-as-usual economy.
If impact investors do take up this question, they will find themselves having to push beyond business-as-usual thinking.
None of these questions are adequately answered by a World Bank continuing with its current model and business-as-usual.
The stark contrast from NBC's buttoned-up, business-as-usual event was even more apparent when ABC announced its bold lineup.
One of the more surprising supporters of an abandonment of royal business-as-usual is former newspaper editor Sir Max Hastings.
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So there is strong support among Americans for his belief that the place needs a shake-up, not business-as-usual diplomacy.
Already in the 1970s, Barbara knew that 'business-as-usual' no longer represented 'solid ground'.
His budget early in the year was a business-as-usual document with no reforms and even the Democratic-controlled Senate rejected it 97-0.
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After his improved shot selection against Sri Lanka, Mohammad Ashraful reverted to his frustrating business-as-usual, while key man Tamim Iqbal looked listless.
The industry has not been cleaned-up and will soon return to business-as-usual.
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In short, EU business-as-usual was a big loser at last week's polls.
But the 157-page American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 is business-as-usual.
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If they make that pledge, it is probably reasonable for families and local authorities to trade with Southern Cross on a business-as-usual basis.
The point of the study is not to predict what will happen, but merely to point out what could happen in a business-as-usual scenario.
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Speaking easily and looking less tired than previous days, Clinton succeeded in projecting the desired image: a 'business-as-usual' chief executive focused on the people's work.
The regulator's objective is to set the cap so that there is a shortage of allowances relative to what the companies' business-as-usual emissions will be.
Of course when the emergency fades, these conditions disappear, and leaders tend to revert back to business-as-usual behaviors, with far less speed, action, and innovation.
But it may not be as resilient as Mumbai's business-as-usual signs.
However, governments will need to step up policies to stimulate renewable investment if the industries are to grow substantially, it says: business-as-usual will not be enough.
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The coming debt ceiling vote may be the best chance to demonstrate that change before voters once again punish politicians who promise change and deliver business-as-usual.
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As the authors acknowledge, there is little chance of business-as-usual halving the number of hungry by 2015, a goal enthusiastically endorsed by world leaders in 1996.
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And it may put pharma executives on notice that certain practices can no longer be written off as business-as-usual settlements and are more costly than once thought.
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For any at-risk industry, not just the food and pharmaceutical industries, the data confirms that we have already entered an era in which product recalls are nearly business-as-usual propositions.
When you get a group of dedicated educators together with a shared vision that is designed to remove the business-as-usual stigma and support total transformation you can achieve amazing things.
The playoff win was business-as-usual for Kaepernick, who formally became the 49ers starting quarterback in the middle of the 2012 NFL season after Alex Smith was sidelined with an injury.
Charles Avenue are heavy with beads, and the parade route still smells a bit like a brewery, but other than that the city is hazily making its way back to business-as-usual.
We'll never know if another episode or type of treatment would have saved Mindy McCready, but we do know that, for a significant number of Americans, business-as-usual addiction treatment isn't working.
Only by enacting legislation that stipulates the conditions under which a return to business-as-usual can occur is Congress likely to be able prevent the thrust of U.S. sanctions from being undercut.
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