All businesses--small and large alike--would do well to take inventory of the educational needs in the communities they serve.
The first step to brain mastery is to take inventory of how you inhabit space, how you stand, how you sit, how you move, and how you interact with others.
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First, they would map the world country by country and take an inventory of existing friends, allies, neutrals, opponents and enemies.
If you too are in a reflective mood today, you may want to take an inventory of your own writing this year.
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Second, It is important to take an inventory of the potential successors skills that are relevant to continue the success of the business.
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What we can do is take a careful inventory of them and update those that no longer align with current market conditions.
If the casual observer were to take a personal inventory of the New York Yankees at the close of business on the first day of the 2012 Winter Meetings, they would see a ball club that is saddled with burdens and difficulties that some might deem insurmountable.
Accordingly, the time is past due to take a more serious inventory of financial measures that could be brought to bear to hobble these regimes and change their cost-benefit calculations, much as happened with Libya.
Whether you are in sales, marketing, or management take an inventory: Does your strategy take into account all three levels of competitive pressure?
Housing, totally depressed, could take at least two years to work off inventory of unsold homes.
To take advantage of China's problems with inventory gluts, look at discount e-commerce sites such as U.S.-listed Vipshop Holdings Ltd.
When a trader pulls up the daily SPY and sees we are in the same place that we were in February of this year, they need to take an inventory.
Despite these obstacles, we believe Best Buy can benefit from better management of its inventory in 2011 and can also take steps to mitigate the growth headwind created by competitors.
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Given the choice between a dull gray Dell or HP laptops out of corproate inventory, many employees opt to take their sleek personal PCs or MacBooks to work.
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You go to places like Nevada or Arizona or Florida, California, their inventory of unsold homes was so high that it is just going to take a whole bunch of years to absorb all that housing stock.
Given the magnitude of the housing bubble and the huge inventory of unsold homes in places like Nevada, it's going to take time to solve these challenges.
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The housing recovery is already having a positive impact on growth, pushing GDP up as residential investment accelerates, but with more than 1.1 million homes in some state of foreclosure and a shadow inventory that tops 2 million units, it will take some time for the market to truly heal, while the risk of slowdown and a reversal remains a possibility.
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Apple's continued attention to channel management helped it take full advantage of the strong quarter to further close the gap with Samsung, which saw some inventory build up for its smartphone range.
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The company is now encouraging retailers to drop their cash registers in favor of the Square Register, an app for the iPad that can track inventory and take purchases on Square users tabs or with the card reader.
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In our view, returning to a more normal proportion of distressed sales will take several years, given the large number of borrowers with negative equity, the large current delinquency and foreclosure inventory, and the long current foreclosure timelines.
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