Will Hitachi-MHI, like many merged Japanese companies (Mizuho Bank is a prominent current example), being unable to reduce staff, simply layer on management levels that slow decision-making and dull competitiveness?
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There is, though, a prominent counter-example: Japan.
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We've already seen one prominent example of a company not finding the right balance and the dire consequences that can result.
Mr. Bastos may be the most prominent example in Brazil of a comedian who has learned to use the Internet for his own purposes, but he is by no means the only one.
Guan was penalized a stroke for slow play, which had some prominent golfers wondering why the Masters rule-men made an example out of a kid when plenty of adult players, like Kevin Na, are guilty of the same thing every week.
You know, as an example, there's a very prominent racehorse from several years back named Easy Goer, spelled E-A-S-Y, as you might imagine, and you wouldn't want to allow the name Eazy, spelled E-A-Z-Y.
Last year, for example, Alik Ismail-Zadeh, a prominent Russian geophysicist, applied for a visa to attend a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
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Ms Bardot, a prominent animal rights campaigner, warned she would follow Mr Depardieu's example if authorities failed to save the elephants, known as Baby and Nepal.
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The founding partners of the Sequoia Capital China team broke up in China in early 2009, as one prominent example, with Neil Shen carrying the flag forward with a record number of IPOs from China deals.
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As with the Replicator, the technology driving the Digitizer has been around for some time, and while there's a bit of a land rush to be the first to bring it to market, MakerBot's success has put it in a good position to be, if not the first, then certainly the most prominent example of its consumer-facing side.
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