And this is what happens to every line of business: a company, an organisation, can survive, yes, but only by being willing to change their line of business when technology makes their old one disappear.

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Pakistan Cricket Board president Dr Naseem Ashraf has insisted his organisation support a tough line towards drugs.

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These should bring it into line with standards set by the World Trade Organisation, which is to accept China as a member on November 10th.

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The report also highlighted the lack of an accepted international industry standard for tug tow line emergency release systems, and asked risk management organisation Lloyd's Register to develop a standard to ensure tow lines can be released effectively in an emergency.

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Assembly-line manufacturing, for instance, was conducive to union organisation.

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The British Retail Consortium's Aodhan Connolly said that, while his organisation did believe the tax would have an impact "our line would be that there are bigger environmental fish out there to fry".

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Dr Dixon, who heads the NHS Alliance - an organisation which represents doctors, nurses and managers on the front line - said the danger with the current wording of the rules was "that it seems to put a duty upon the commissioner to go for competition with all contracts that are made".

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In fixed-line telecoms, for example, the report shows how the state-owned Telephone Organisation of Thailand and Communications Authority of Thailand have exploited their double role as regulators and operators to the detriment of competition.

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However, the challenge is to quickly identify what should be retained and to make good use of the information that is generated so that, with the right business processes in place, SMEs can derive valuable information from big data to gain unique insights into their organisation and their customers, improve efficiencies and ultimately add value to the bottom line.

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At Christmas the organisation provided 400 hampers of food an other essential goods to families living below the poverty line.

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