Not having many physical assets makes it easy for these companies to shirk responsibility.

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Next, non-technical staff, unable to produce quality output, learn to shirk responsibility as they throw projects over the fence to IT.

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And we, as a nation, cannot afford to shirk responsibility any longer.

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Public perception of him as a symbol of capitalist greed may precede him, but Leeson doesn't shirk the responsibility.

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Too much responsibility is devolved to local governments that usually try hard to shirk it.

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