Goal setting using the SMARTER method can surpass the impact typically realized using the traditional method due to an emphasis on multiplying the effort expended combined with a focus on relationships no longer is simply going from point A to point B the key how one goes about getting to point B can be the difference in impact and in time and money saved.

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This new breakthrough -- when combined with the DNA-based data storage and a method to transmit DNA between cells the school's already working on -- means that Stanford has created all the necessary components of a biologic computer.

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The study, which examines deals in America in 1962-2001, makes various adjustments to take account of the flaws and concludes that mergers created, on average, combined gains to shareholders of 7.3%, compared with the gains identified by the old method of 5.3%.

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