Mr Brown vigorously rejects one criticism that, these days, is sometimes aimed at New Labour, the pro-market social-democratic force of which, along with Tony Blair, his predecessor as prime minister, and Lord Mandelson, now the business secretary, he was a progenitor: that it was a fair-weather creed.
Ellison had been trying in vain to penetrate the lucrative market for sales-force automation software, where Siebel is the undisputed leader.
The company is growing faster than its competition due to a best in class reference customer list and more recently, the launch of software that is easier to use, focuses on alerting users when something is wrong, and finally, a push into the mid-market with an in-house sales force.
Secondly, Halifax has extended its reach in the long-term savings market by acquiring the sales force and unit-linked business of Equitable Life, the troubled mutual life insurer.
Neither of those chains even made the top 10 in a recent poll of more than 7, 000 burger lovers by customer-research firm Market Force Information.
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These westerners also accept the market as the essential driving-force of any economy, but they too wish to set it within a moral framework that will ensure support for the weak through the compassion and self-discipline of the strong.
This could further exacerbate food costs and force emerging-market central bankers to fight inflation by allowing their currencies to rise.
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More controversially, the government plans to suspend mark-to-market accounting rules, which force banks to value their holdings at market prices.
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The sanctions would close off the European market and - the EU hopes - force the country to strike a deal.
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Now he's working hard within the bureaucracy to undermine mark-to-market reform in order to force banks to go along with his scheme.
His government of technocrats, which took office in November 2011, is also trying to force labour-market reform on the trade unions and fiscal compliance on Italy's legendarily tax-shy self-employed.
Even for those who perceive recessions as market failures rather than a self-correcting force, and thus think recovery requires help, politicians cannot solve economic riddles.
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The biotech industry is also vulnerable to the charge that it tried to force-feed the market by flooding Europe with so much modified soya as to make regulating it impossible.
Yet market advocates lose the force of their pro-liberty message when they characterize the working class as free-riding on the backs of the rich.
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And what has made it possible to harness the incredible productive capacity of the American people -- the greatest economic force in the history of the world -- has been a free market where people can pursue their dreams, their goals and their happiness, and where you can take charge of your own destiny.
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The local police force seems to have adopted a market-based approach to law enforcement.
It also will force the functional service providers to be more market-driven.
It probably seemed like a good idea at the time of filing (2009) when other force-sensing options had yet to hit market, but this one seems unlikely to see daylight -- though, you never know.
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So in order to make the "reformed" health-insurance market work, it's necessary and proper to force everyone to buy insurance.
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Its Mirage masks are widely considered the most comfortable on the market, so Farrell's sales force uses them as a come-on.
They also gain access to a branch network and client list they could never afford to replicate, even after World Trade Organisation rules force China to open its domestic banking market fully from end-2006.
Which leaves only Rolex, an unstoppable force that holds 25% of the high-end market with basically one watch, the Oyster, while keeping the company's inner workings almost completely hidden behind a gold-clad fortress in Geneva (see "As Tight as an Oyster").
And so instead of trying out a new territory, baseball force-fed a second team into a one-team market.
Our fourth objective is to work with the interagency task force to align workforce programs funded by the Department of Labor and the Department of Education with market demands to help the task force identify and develop stackable credentials in high-demand industries, and to increase the use of technology to improve training.
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Instead of letting market mechanisms work inside the health service, it relied on top-down targets to force hospitals to perform better.
Now that the evidence is out, it seems obvious that Microsoft played dirty, trying to force competitors out of the market by bundling new applications to its market-dominant Windows operating system.
As a last resort, the banking watchdog hopes to force financial-services firms to value all bonds they hold at market prices from July, in the hope this will encourage them to start trading them more.
Accounting standard-setters have been arm-twisted into relaxing rules that force banks to mark certain assets to market, but in the long run that may hurt confidence in the health of bank balance-sheets, not help it.
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While the risk of stagflation is still a long-term phenomenon, inelastic demand curves for food and energy products could force market participants to feel the sting of rising headline inflation and thus cut back to minimum spending.
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Less well-known is that the company has become a major force in the European property market.
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