Prestige has its uses and the open-access journals will, no doubt, establish a pecking-order among themselves fairly quickly.
For all the flurry of recent activity, surveys clearly indicate, most South Koreans believe that capital punishment has its uses.
However the distancing of the institution from political power has its uses, since politics is divisive and coalitions are inherently unstable.
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Cooler heads say that the monitoring system (which costs relatively little in the context of the federal budget) has its uses.
Mr O'Neill's version may be more virtuous, but the latter has its uses: it encourages openness, not least in the Praetorian guard around the president.
Simulation also has its uses on the battlefields of commerce.
The silence of the desert has its uses for the mystic, but what she experienced as a writer was that it destroys not only the sense of self, but also the foundation of narrative art a sense of time and memory.
Like Mr Grasso, he believes that the secular forces driving America's (and the world's) conversion to an equity culture will outlive a bear market: indeed a correction has its uses, because it reminds investors of the link between risk and return.
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Both have found that being punished by the world has its political uses.
Along with PowerShares, Dorsey Wright, the well-known research shop, has its own ETF that uses a trend following methodology when picking its portfolio constituents.
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The CIA has its own fleet of drones that it uses on its counterterror missions, and any decision to stop building drones would be unlikely to have any effect on that program.
And the only workable alternative uses bismuth which has its own supply problems.
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An adviser must make a reasonable allocation of the cost of the product according to its uses, the SEC has said.
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So the organisation that Ms Jana works for, the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, has put a machine in its office that uses ultraviolet light to detect forgeries.
Disney did not respond to a request for comment, while the Sesame Workshop, the organization behind "Sesame Street, " said it has not authorized such uses of any its characters in any city and is looking into what actions it can take.
But McKee Foods still uses Oracle for its financial system, and Oracle, it turns out, has acquired the software firms McKee uses for manufacturing.
But what has set Mori apart is the way it uses its network of properties to peddle a posh lifestyle to go along with the luxury square footage.
West Yorkshire Police has 18 horses in its mounted section, which it uses to police football matches up and down the country and for ceremonial occasions, according to the force's website.
And Livescribe has tried since 2007 to popularize its technology, which uses a pen with a tiny, built-in camera and special paper to record and wirelessly transmit text as you write.
Nevertheless, well-run Carnival uses its size to great effect and has a superior net profit margin of 19%, to Royal's 10%.
BioHeap, as Titan dubs its process, uses bacteria that the company has developed by selective breeding over the past five years.
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Software consulting firm Veracity Solutions, of Salt Lake City, has produced its own growth on a strategy that the company uses to lift other companies as well.
The authors' argument, first laid out in the Atlantic a year ago, is that America's big banks act as an oligarchy, a group that has gained political power because of its economic power and then uses that political power for its own benefit.
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Orkney Islands Council also uses its bunker as a meeting room and has kitted it out with video conferencing equipment.
Rich Europe also uses more of its available brainpower because it has more people in the labour force and keeps them at work for longer.
Johnson uses the example to show how society has always misplaced its fears over technological change.
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