For organizers, these forums especially annual ones are supposed to mean new business opportunities and a bigger, better event the following year.
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For the 50 or so in attendance, Director Cordray and many of his top luitenants flew cross-country to Silicon Valley to send a clear message they mean business, and to offer a nibble of a locally sourced, organic carrot.
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Any family that has spent considerable personal and financial resources preparing for the generational transfer of a business, for instance, will know what the death tax can mean to a family business.
Sometimes being more generous to workers may mean the loss of business to lower-cost rivals, or even the eventual demise of the firm.
So while I'm all for bringing green business to Silicon Valley, I have to ask: Does that mean rescuing a business that shows no evidence of being able to make it on its own?
Just to show you we mean business we shall punish our own TV consumers!
Their first order was to deploy uniformed marines in Manila shopping centers and other busy spots to show criminals they mean business.
And the move to installing fiber and manufacturing its own hardware mean that the company is diversifying its business model to include more direct payments from users and not be wholly dependent on advertising revenues to fund all of this infrastructure.
The lamentable performance of Mr Paulson in particular, and Mr Obama's wish to distance himself from Wall Street's high profile ethical and business failures, mean that he is unlikely to hire Goldman alumni with the same enthusiasm that Mr Bush had although Goldman's employees have been enthusiastic donors to Mr Obama's campaign and now his inauguration expenses.
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High wages and property values mean it is difficult to start a business in the area, or even to maintain one.
One lesson the British utilities have learnt is that privatisation cannot mean they are free to conduct their business as they wish.
The trouble with the Mirror and one of the reasons for Mr MacKenzie's departure is that Mr Montgomery is trying to run it as a lean, mean business.
If that scenario pans out, it will mean an end to ways of doing business that date back to the early part of this century, when Japanese companies were grouped as zaibatsu (the precursors of today's keiretsu) and backed by the government.
SprintNextel may no longer be a takeover target, but Wednesday's announcement that Sprint and Clearwire are combining their WiMax business to create a new mobile broadband company doesn't mean that the problems with Sprint's core business will be resolved.
But it would add to burdens on business, force people to disclose personal details to their employer, and mean that some smaller firms had to pay out more in credits than they owed in taxes.
So what does an assist mean in business if we were to establish this as a business statistic?
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Congress needs to examine how Facebook develops its approach to privacy, and what its business plans mean for the future.
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This will not only mean that business people will have to devote more of their time and resources to dealing with requests for money.
Before the vote on repeal, the Senate passed by 81 votes to 17 an amendment to the law which should mean less paperwork for business.
In the airline business, bigger does seem to mean better.
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To preserve the credibility of U.S. anti-proliferation efforts and the message to our allies and potential adversaries that we mean business on ensuring the safe, benign global development of nuclear energy, it is essential that we view the Cienfuegos nuclear project as a litmus test of American political will for the 21st century.
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Consequently, to preserve the credibility of U.S. anti-proliferation efforts and the message to our allies and potential adversaries that we mean business on ensuring the safe, benign global development of nuclear energy, it is essential that we view the Cienfuegos nuclear project as a litmus test of American political will for the 21st century.
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But it does not mean giving up the chance to succeed in the business world, or bow down to the man who has chosen his career over anything else.
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We want to see the international community responding and, you know, we've built coalitions before, I think that's what we should be doing now is building a coalition to make sure that President Mugabe knows that we mean business.
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But, despite the frustrations of getting started, the board displays admirable resilience: its members now have desks, some even have business cards, and they mean to monitor that census by tirelessly demanding briefings and testimony and documents from Mr Prewitt's team.
Plus, because autonomics can perform routine IT processes much more reliably and efficiently than humans, implementing autonomics often means drastic reductions in mean time to resolution (MTTR), more consistent business-related outcomes and a huge amount of time that can now be dedicated to other more creative pursuits.
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The director of Norfolk Tourism has said she "hopes" London 2012 will mean big business for Norfolk as she outlines plans to attract sports fans.
Councillors said the proposed route, which bypasses the Warrington Bank Quay station by deviating from the current line between Crewe and Wigan, would mean the loss of Taylor Business Park - home to 50 companies.
Getting rid of them will cut some costs but it will also mean that the cost of the infrastructure to support a brokerage business will be borne increasingly by its star performers, who will not like their shrinking pay-packets.
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