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• As regulations like PCI become more prescriptive, as discovery and compliance tools get better, as organizations embed security more seamlessly in the business, and as security itself becomes part of more expansive and, theoretically, more valuable business roles, will security professionals need to reinvent themselves? —  IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
• Point of view - prescriptive, descriptive and definite - is what distinguishes Elizabeth Mayhew's first book, "Flip! for Decorating." —  NYT > Home Page
• While the first phase is strict and prescriptive, adherents of the plan are left to make their own food choices after this point, using the lists provided only as guidelines. —  Article Source
• As a result of using IBM's DTCO, a semiconductor modeling process will have a new class of design rules that are simpler and more prescriptive (what to do vs. what not to do). —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
• Recent data shows that Houston's free market approach builds one-third more density per capita than Portland's highly prescriptive, planned approach. —  Houston Strategies

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