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College leaders must prune the dying parts to allow the young, growing buds to thrive.
Or, you could refine your overall strategy, prune personnel, shed unprofitable accounts, streamline procedures and upgrade systems.
Clorox deploys cross-functional teams to continually prune its product portfolio, insuring that remaining products meet their volume targets.
Why do Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon also aggressively prune?
At home on his parents' walnut and prune ranch in San Martin, Calif.
Other species of mammal prune plants too albeit as a side-effect of eating them.
What the Newcastle team has now done is confirm that prune-like fingers are indeed better at gripping wet objects.
The airline also plans to prune its flight schedule by just under 4% during the first three months of 2003.
At home on his parents' walnut and prune ranch in San Martin, California, he admired the stagecoach scene engraved on the cylinder.
Mouthwatering delights at Prune are made even more delectable by reasonable prices.
Another is the need for European banks to slim their balance-sheets: trade finance, because of its short-term nature, is easy to prune.
If Mr Tusk can dump his coalition partner, the smallholders' People's Party, he will find it easier to prune wasteful subsidies for farmers.
It should be able to prune vines at about half the cost of manual labour, says Derek Morikawa, the chief executive of Vision Robotics.
Its directives include one to prune the dealer population, now 6, 246, by more than the 35% GM had planned--and to do it much faster.
The government has begun to make spending cuts, but these fall far short of what may be required to prune an overgrown public sector.
Some firms have moved to prune their plans, by shrinking benefit amounts or lowering caps that limit retiree payments to a certain percentage of profits.
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It promises to prune the public sector and to slash regulations.
And British Airways plans to prune its European network drastically.
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Prune may be too informal, too small and too far off the beaten path for some, but its incomparable contemporary cooking catapults eaters into a state of gastronomic euphoria.
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Canadian teams are working to reorganise Bangladesh Rail, to prune its staff and minor routes and improve financial and accounting systems, in the way that Canadian National Railways was restructured.
Deploying British Columbia-grown fruit to full effect, the company concocts 25 spirits on site, including fruit liquors such as blueberry and sea buckthorn, and a taste bud-popping prune brandy called Old Italian.
After years of trying to oust ineffective teachers by reforming the system, the Bloomberg administration is turning to options it already has available to try to prune the weakest educators from its ranks.
The biggest, an effort to prune the country's dreadful thicket of indirect taxes into a tidier form, an all-India Goods and Services Tax, has been pushed back by a year, to April 2012.
Despite the fact that millions have eaten prunes and drunk prune juice in order to lighten themselves of their internal burden for centuries, the European Union has now ruled that prunes are not in fact laxatives.
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One was the growth of in-house legal teams, pioneered by GE, who not only provide advice on routine matters but actively monitor and prune the thicket of outside lawyers that feed on every large company.
Prune the trees closest to your house.
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Until the electronics makers are willing to prune their businesses to concentrate on a few targeted areas rather than stock a bit of everything on their shelves, they will continue to flounder as the world passes them by.
Who could have predicted that my Pistachio-Pesto Salmon, introduced in 1998 in "Entertaining 1-2-3, " would essentially become a national dish, or that short ribs cooked in prune juice and teriyaki would capture the hearts of so many food editors?
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