Their success was made possible by hard work and a business-like approach.

These standards are intended to support the business-like approach of the ES.

"It's just a more business-like approach to salaries."

Companies are also banding together to put pressure on state legislatures and school boards to adopt more business-like approaches to education.

Judge Ito's brisk, business-like approach to a potentially nightmarish case has generally won him praise.

Consistent with its business-like approach, Kavli requires each partner University to match the average $7.5 million donation.

In the first place, I want to thank you and your colleagues for cooperation, openness and a business-like approach to the talks we have had here.

And we have only one reason that the NHL due to their, sort of say, exclusively business-like approach."

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"Unlike some previous meetings, this plenum is marked by a sober, business-like approach," Mr. Gorbachev said.

Dumars said, "Knowing what's at stake, knowing what it takes to win, it's almost like they have a business-like approach to what they do."

His contemporary Bertram Mackennal was a highly enterprising sculptor, who had a more business-like approach to promoting his work.

In reality 'he had a firm business-like approach to running the Cabinet', according to John Barnes and Anthony Seldon.

But now, Mrs. Morena said, "I prefer the Catalans' cool, pragmatic, business-like approach to things."

It looked to Ross as if the best these kids could muster was the same blank business-like approach as the kids in the fast-food places, selling burgers.

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The prosecutor, Deputy Attorney General Anthony G. Simonetti, is an ex-marine who takes a methodical, business-like approach in court.

During her first campaign for the Assembly, she said the State needed to adopt a business-like approach, cut spending, cut taxes, end "unfunded mandates" and improve the business environment.

Analysts said Mr. McCune performed a tough balancing act, moving the company away from the paternalistic approach of Dr. Land to a more business-like approach.

The business-like approach is right, but there is something disturbing in the implication that intellectual stimulation and education, in its wider sense, have little to do with passing the exams.

The Defence Research Agency is one of the new Executive Agencies being established within the Civil Service to improve efficiency, effectiveness and quality of service through a more business-like approach.

But it is a line of work that could still benefit from a more business-like approach, says David Palmer, director of the Amma Institute in San Francisco, which teaches Japanese massage.

We have seen that the Coordinating Team evolved an effective mode of working and a clear understanding of its own objectives and procedures, and was characterised by a committed and business-like approach to its tasks.

In a further example of the new business-like approach to government, today the Cabinet Office became the first government department to publish its structural reform plan, setting out its new priorities, with implementation milestones clearly exposed for public scrutiny.

For example, if a skilled worker works for a number of clients throughout the year and has a business-like approach to obtaining engagements (perhaps involving expenditure on office accommodation, office equipment and so on) this will point towards self-employment.