Originally the game was played with a dead man, a prisoner of war or someone equally dispensable.
As a result, the practice of traditional management of treating employees as dispensable becomes counter-productive.
How can we know which checks and balances are utterly necessary and which are dispensable?
Cradle to grave social programs make families financially dispensable, in a superficial sense.
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He has planted stink bug bait rows of dispensable pumpkins and sunflowers to serve as tasty decoys and distract the pests from his vegetables.
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Mr Putin's next step could be to dump United Russia, leaving it in the hands of his faithful (and dispensable) lieutenant, Mr Medvedev.
Many publishers believe that Amazon looks upon books as just another commodity to sell as cheaply as possible, and that it sees publishers as dispensable.
In other words, with respect to these funds, American Beacon is merely a middleman a dispensable intermediary whose fees could presumably be eliminated by contracting directly with the underlying advisers.
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"Journalists have become dispensable, " Mr Simon says soberly.
In those movies the women are often dispensable.
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While you may think that CIOs in this scenario are doomed to become as dispensable as the light switch they are supposed to keep turned on, Gartner provides a big data escape hatch to a redefined career path.
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The Labour Party is full of people who will say in private that Mr Mandelson has treated them less honourably, that in his relentless rise he has been all too willing to scythe away former friends and colleagues who become dispensable.
Healthcare chaplains tend to people at the most vulnerable time in their lives, but they are paid for out of the same NHS budget that funds doctors, nurses, medicine and equipment, and there has been persistent concern that hard-pressed health trusts may see them as dispensable.
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