Those could include better distribution, ability to cross-sell advertising, perhaps even enhanced production capabilities.
Perhaps the most startling finding of all is what happens at the high end of the ability distribution.
The cumulative message of several recent studies is that there are serious limits to what school can do for you, and this is true at both the low and high ends of the ability distribution.
Apple offered a low-cost distribution channel and the ability to reach a broadened audience.
As for content creation, the deep pockets of traditional TV production companies will likely disappear along with their ability to control distribution.
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But noise pollution might severely affect the distribution of fish, and their ability to reproduce, communicate and avoid predators.
The appeal for both companies is to control distribution, which ostensibly better enables their ability to respond to shifts in consumer tastes.
Again a flurry of great companies grew, built around their ability to master large-scale distribution.
In addition, DG offers the ability to defer costly transmission and distribution system upgrades and enables fuel hedging.
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"Our ability to broaden our product and distribution base will enable us to mitigate to some extent any short term weakness in our traditional hobby sectors, " said Hornby chief executive Frank Martin.
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America has already evolved rules greatly restricting the ability of combined content-and-distribution businesses to bully rivals.
Apple's success has been attributed to its ability to adapt to India's smartphone distribution market, where most electronics are sold through small, family-owned shops.
That's manifested in our ability to supply our troops in Afghanistan through the Northern Distribution Network.
As Chinese companies continue to move outward and, in addition to securing natural resources and infrastructure projects, acquire distribution networks, IP, and yes, even manufacturing facilities, their ability to draw upon a pool of global talent will be closely watched.
If parents have the ability to take money from the trust, or if there is a mandatory distribution of income, that could render them ineligible depending on the state, Mr. Frigon says.
But I think the network-affiliate relationship is one of the great distribution partnerships that's ever been created, and I do think it offers us the ability to deliver an audience like we did at the Olympics or that we were able to do on election night that perhaps USA couldn't.
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