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He also offers an instrument for measuring the level of businesslike approach and methods of testing the relationship between NPM and ethics.
Ethics and new public management; empirical research into the effects of businesslike government on ethics and integrity
He spoke not a word, but the foxy old elf just walked to the mantel and laid on the shelf a letter, typewritten in businesslike style; then down the dumb-waiter he sped with a smile.
The night before Christmas, 1907
Next time she makes lewd remarks calmly yet firmly tell her you don't think they're funny and can she stick to businesslike interactions.
Dear Dr Pam: PICTURE CASEBOOK: EVERYONE WILL LAUGH IF I COMPLAIN I'M BEING SEXUALLY HARRASSED
Thus, as we have reported, there is a need for a comprehensive, integrated transformation strategy for real property that will focus on some of the underlying causes that contribute to these problems, such as competing stakeholder interests in real property decisions, various legal and budget-related disincentives to businesslike outcomes, inadequate capital planning, and the lack of governmentwide focus on real property issues.
Federal Real Property: Actions Needed to Address Long-standing and Complex Problems
Second, the company must demonstrate a businesslike and solution-oriented organization with an infrastructure capable of providing investors with a consistent stream of information regarding both successes and failures.
Making the case for ag biotech investment. (Investing)
This will immediately give your piece a crisper, more businesslike flavor.
Tips for making writing easier: part 6: toning up chatty or sloppy prose
However, it leaves the question of what tie-less males can wear that will leave them looking smart and businesslike.
YOUR VIEWS: CRIME OF FASHION AT WORK
His businesslike manner as he stooped to pick her up, spin her around, and set her down suggested he'd spent a lifetime hefting ladies around.
Moving Generations
And yet the paintings are clearly executed at speed: The touch is rapid and assertive, businesslike rather than caressing.
JULIE HEFFERNAN
The function of management is to make the church more churchlike, not to make the church more businesslike.
VERBATIM
Meetings were organized in a businesslike way; conversionist piety was promoted, and the distractions of reformist concerns were to be shunned.
A Truly National Revival
This businesslike site has been good business for Brown.
A practical site reaps marketing rewards

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