The scene can be applied to many aspects of life, including investing.

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As important, the principles of welfare-to-work can be applied to other working-age people who in many countries have come to depend on welfare through disability payments.

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Unlike some types of security updates and service packs issued by Microsoft that can be applied to an entire network, many companies must correct this problem unit by unit.

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This implies several crucial recognitions: that intuition and experience are not sufficient to make all decisions in a way that maximizes shareholder value, that non-experimental methods are not up to the task of determining causality with sufficient reliability to guide many actions, and that experiments can be applied in practice to enough business issues to justify the costs of the capability.

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Motherhood provides so many lessons that can be applied to professional life.

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But it is doubtful whether the law can be applied in practice, if too many people try to use it.

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Although HMRC has sought to tackle the practice by taking enforcement action in a few "lead" cases, such investigations can take many years to resolve and the rulings cannot always be applied successfully elsewhere.

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