Everyone else, whether in the C-suite or in the senior management ranks, runs a piece of a business or a support function.

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Scales says the Iraq Study Group also appears to be suggesting something he and others have recommended for years moving the mission from a close combat operation to more of a support and training function.

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Having a mastery of a particular function such as finance, support, marketing, or engineering is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for success.

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The Center for Security Policy believes that the real prospect of such an outcome eventuating makes it incumbent on President Clinton to adopt a more sophisticated and calibrated policy: Mr. Clinton must make clear that the unequivocal support expressed thus far for Yeltsin is a function not of the man, himself, but of the reformist policies he claims to be pursuing.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

We do have a web component, but it serves to support the function of the mobile product.

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At least 100 of the genes are a complete mystery to science - we have no idea what function they support.

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Until a few years ago, the main function of computer systems in society, and business in particular, was as a digital support system.

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