These stone tools generally consisted of sharp flakes battered off a stone core, but early hominids also did more sophisticated flaking and retouching to sharpen and straighten their blades.

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Private equity firms that come in and sharpen operations, as Bain did, can make a sleepy company more focused.

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The more services Yahoo offered, the longer its guests would stay and the more Yahoo could pry into their habits and sharpen efforts to target them.

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However, while these reasons may be true, providing a bit more rigor and testing around whether and how stakeholders value your CSR commitments can sharpen the opportunities to create and capture value for a company.

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And ironically, the storage industry has been more than willing over the last three years to help him sharpen his point as they have introduced efficiency tools, one after another, that their customers are now putting to work.

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