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Healy and Ramanna (2013) NA Corrupt practice is less defensible in developing countries for multinationals in overseas.

So, perhaps it's best to avoid blatant copying, e.g. of graphic characters, famous sculptures, etc., where copyright infringement is less defensible.

Focusing on privacy as control over information about oneself, Posner argues that concealment or selective disclosure of information is usually to mislead or manipulate others, or for private economic gain, and thus protection of individual privacy is less defensible than others have thought because it does not maximize wealth.

Pruitt's use of a National Guard helicopter to visit the Liberty mine is less defensible than using one to survey a natural disaster or even to celebrate a sporting event, and the fact that he tried to hide information about this and other trips suggests that he knew as much.

What was less defensible, he states, was the Gallup organization's lack of transparency about its methodology.

For many, the persistent misogyny in N.W.A.'s work, which was alternately cartoonish and savage in its offensiveness, was less defensible.

LX: Given my experience, I think go to market is the most important because algorithms are less defensible.

They conclude that the latter approach is theoretically less defensible, but may be more practical and flexible.

There is a less defensible explanation too: "Hollywood's value system is not necessarily about growth," says Dan Jansen, who runs the Boston Consulting Group's media practice.

In an era when rapid technological change enables companies to lay off workers and increase profitability, imperfect experience rating is even less defensible.

"While today's statement is more explicit than the secretary general has made before, it has even greater resonance since in the current environment the idea of exempting people from the rule of law because of their nationality is obviously less defensible than ever," said Richard Dicker, director for international justice at Human Rights Watch.