That means they're prone to intervene and take positive action when no one else will.

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Take positive action to transform service industries into exporting industries and to open up global markets.

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Either way, Renesas gains a competitive advantage without having to take any positive action of its own.

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In the case of Casey Brittle, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said officers did not take "positive action" and its domestic abuse unit was not kept informed.

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You may not want to continue, but at the very least, you will know that you can take action and produce positive results.

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So the future of social media is to arm us with the information and the understanding so that we may take action to provoke positive change.

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Online retailers are particularly smart at this, and have given many established brick and mortar competitors a hard time with their ability to analyze consumer sentiment, take suitable action, and elicit positive recommendations from their enormous online audience.

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