Managing an on-line operation can create expensive technical problems, attract deadbeat customers or eat up untold hours that might be better spent on strategy or sales.

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Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, AMD, HP, and Microsoft have piloted internationally agreed-upon due diligence guidance on conflict minerals in line with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development due diligence model.

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He has set up an on-line newspaper, Il Nuovo, a 35-journalist operation run by Sergio Luciano, a former business editor of La Repubblica, the second-largest Italian daily.

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But what would he have made of the fundamental change in the Telegraph's operation, from being a simple newspaper to being a combination of paper and complex on-line production?

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Despite this prospect, Russia is prepared to help bring the Juragua reactors on-line, among other reasons, because the Castro regime has made such cooperation a quid pro quo for continued operation of the Lourdes facility and Russia's substantial military presence on the island.

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