Meanwhile, company "perks" offered to employees, such as take-out meals and car service, had gradually blurred the lines between work and life.
As it turned out, in the March local elections Uralmash came in second: but its very existence shows how blurred the lines between party politics, patronage and gangsterism have become in the new Russia.
Until recently, Mr. Slim and the broadcasters had been on friendly terms, but tensions rose as technology blurred the lines separating their businesses, prompting Televisa and Azteca to offer "triple play" services: telephone, broadband Internet and TV.
By bundling in the registration, the lines are blurred about who owns the domain, and it leaves room for ISPs to hold customers hostage by saying the customers lose their domain if they switch ISPs.
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But further down this path the lines can become blurred.
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But Williams began to take on many of the duties of campaign manager, and the lines of authority blurred -- senior advisers went to Williams for guidance, while the junior team was reporting to Doyle.
As happens often in political contests, as election-day approached lines between the contestants blurred.
In parliamentary systems, lines of responsibility are more blurred, giving politicians more scope to splurge.
In fact, in many of these games the lines between designers and players are blurred.
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Work-life balances suffered as the lines between professional and personal time became blurred.
When the government is the primary payer, budgets are tight, and benefits have been overpromised, the lines between cost and quality can get blurred.
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"In this digital era, the lines between professional and personal endeavors are sometimes blurred, " the guidelines say.
Here the lines between politics and cinema have been traditionally blurred.
The lines for personal time and work time have become blurred at best, probably non-existent.
Nevertheless, technology has created an atmosphere where the lines between work life and personal life are so blurred that many of my colleagues and I are addressing emails, answering phone calls, and otherwise working at night, on the weekends, and while on vacation.
Yet in fact the lines demarcating forbidden insider information from ordinary corporate data shared between companies and investors or analysts are blurred, empowering prosecutors to define the outer-reaches after-the-fact, on a case-by-case basis.
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