Companies may still recover some reputational equity by making such common cause with their customers and partners, but that will not exempt them from the harshest penalties imposed to date for failing to protect private data.

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In case insurers did not get this hint, Congress also imposed an expiration date on these policies.

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At a time when the Japanese economy needs help, to date around 50 countries have imposed restrictions on Japanese imports.

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Instead, he should have been aggressively pushing frequent, unannounced, up-to-date testing, with severe penalties imposed for infractions.

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My business partner and co-author Steve Blank, a workaholic Silicon Valley legend, imposed this discipline I recommend: "date night" with his wife Alison.

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Temporary curbs imposed in 2005 to protect the British labour market are set to expire on that date.

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