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"Shirking," the surgeon called it, and was much incensed.
The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917
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Shirking, or the principal-agent problem, which is deliberate underperformance while claiming full payment when the client cannot verify the vendor's effort or service levels
Eric K. Clemons: Introduction to Cloud Computing Eric K. Clemons 2011
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Shirking, or the principal-agent problem, which is deliberate underperformance while claiming full payment when the client cannot verify the vendor's effort or service levels
Eric K. Clemons: Introduction to Cloud Computing Eric K. Clemons 2011
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Shirking, and deliberate underperformance, and poaching, or the deliberate misuse of data resources and intellectual property, are always potential problems in any form of outsourcing.
Eric K. Clemons: Introduction to Cloud Computing Eric K. Clemons 2011
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Shirking, and deliberate underperformance, and poaching, or the deliberate misuse of data resources and intellectual property, are always potential problems in any form of outsourcing.
Eric K. Clemons: Introduction to Cloud Computing Eric K. Clemons 2011
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Shirking any ability to remedy the local level confusion about subsidy packaging in Peshawar, the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India actually compounded the quandary by punting the question back to its askers: "(p) lease instruct the Treasury officials to act in accordance with the usual practice, whatever that has been" (emphasis added) .43
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Scott Horton, Shirking Responsibility (Sept. 25, 2005) 48.
Balkinization 2006
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Shirking responsibility for one's actions is a major problem in this country.
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Scott Horton, Shirking Responsibility (Sept. 25, 2005) 48.
Balkinization 2006
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Shirking its responsibility in the face of the threat of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and the other forces of European fascism is a shameful episode in the history of the southern state.
Archive 2007-08-01 Johnny Guitar 2007
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