This underscores the importance of first creating a strategy, often lost in a world where resources are scarce and businesses focus on the day-to-day, against which to measure.
So when Black Heels crossed my desk, I tucked it in my bag on a Friday afternoon, and looked forward to a weekend on my couch (I was also stricken with my 287th cold of the season) lost in a fantasy world of love, and good cooking and strapping cowboys wrangling cattle.
Riders are soon lost in a world of tall trees and rugged hills, with tantalising glimpses of the distant peaks of the Velebit mountains.
They got lost in a corrupt world of enhancers and boosters and had their heads turned by the fame and accolades and money.
The central idea here is that Colleen is lost in a fantasy world of violence, which in effect, can be claimed about anyone who has ever played an M-rated video game.
And though ancient Babylonia is often referred to in popular culture as a "lost" world, in fact much more evidence of mathematical learning from the period exists than from ancient Greece, said Chi.
In October 2012 the Dumfries group lost their world record to a team from Campbell River in Canada.
And, the press is full of articles on how to replace lost interest income in a zero yield world.
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The potential to get lost in a vast role-playing-world also exists, as do many other potential real-life great escapes.
Scolari will be under pressure to deliver in 2014, with fans eager to avoid a repeat of the 1950 World Cup when Brazil lost out to Uruguay in the final match of the tournament.
He said this week that almost every week a journalist somewhere in the world lost his or her life.
Bangladesh have played England in eight limited overs internationals and lost them all - the most recent a four-wicket defeat in Barbados during the 207 World Cup.
Redmond, a member of the Marlins' World Series championship team in 2003, took over a team that lost the likes of Jose Reyes, Hanley Ramirez and Josh Johnson since opening day last year.
Needing just a draw to be crowned world champions in the final game of the tournament, Brazil lost 2-1 to Uruguay and missed out on a first World Cup triumph -- an event referred to by playwright Nelson Rodrigues as "our Hiroshima".
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The importance of shoes in world history has not been lost on a group of global footwear experts poised to convene in Northampton.
In the euro's first decade, southern Mediterranean countries enjoyed the benefit of lower interest rates, but they failed to reform their labour and product markets to make their economies more competitive for a world in which they had lost the safety-valve of currency devaluation.
William is lost in Anna's world and she causes a huge sensation in his.
Egypt lost out to Algeria in a bitterly contested, politically charged World Cup playoff in Sudan last November.
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It is easy to get lost in that world, which is probably what a lot of immigrants happily do.
Lloyd and his men had had a scare earlier in the tournament when they lost their first ever World Cup match to the Indians after 10 successive wins.
Franz Beckenbauer's West German machine won the 1972 Euro and 1974 World Cup, then lost the 1976 Euro in a penalty-kick shootout.
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Herbert's side narrowly lost 4-3 to World Cup holders Italy in a friendly on Wednesday, and he said the big-game experience is excellent.
In the meantime, Australian rugby fans can take comfort from the fact that while their national team lost in the World Cup Final, the event as a whole generated "significant economic activity and revenue".
Each should serve as a lesson to all of us and serve as a not-so-gentle reminder that ignorance is still rampant in our world and common sense is a truly lost art for for many.
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New Zealand's only other appearance in a World Cup finals was in 1982 when they lost to Scotland (5-2), Soviet Union (3-0) and Brazil (4-0).
England have lost only once - a 3-0 defeat by America in the World Cup quarter-final - in their last 15 competitive matches.
Tragically for Hungarian football, that defeat was in the 1954 World Cup final, where they lost 3-2 to a West Germany team they had previously beaten 8-3 in the group stages.
In October 2010, six months after returning to golf with such poor form that he failed to win a single event in a season for the first time since turning professional, Woods lost his world best crown to Englishman Lee Westwood -- ending a record run of 281 consecutive weeks at the top (which started in June 2005).
The nephew of a World War I soldier who lost a postcard while being treated in a military hospital nearly 100 years ago has been traced.
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