The hope is that investors can be persuaded to hold the assets to maturity, which, for some, means until next December, and that they will all mature in good standing.

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The second, and relevant, case is a mature company that is doing a really good job in a very specific B2C field.

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Office is the leading example of a mature product, one that has been "good enough" for many years, and thus not the sort of tech product for which users clamor for the latest-and-greatest upgrade (unlike, say, mobile phones).

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California argued that the voluntary system isn't good enough, because some minors manage to purchase mature-rated games anyway, and some publishers don't submit games to the ratings board.

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And not competing head to head with Engadget was very important to us as well -- we didn't want to distract from the good work our old team was doing to grow and mature the very brand we'd bled for and built our careers on.

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Sorry, Wall Street Journal and Kay S. Hymowitz, they may act a little less mature than the men we have been told to emulate, but the good men have not GONE anywhere .

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But if parents, teachers and the other adults in a child's life never acknowledge "how things are" -- no matter how good the intention may be -- then they are denying that child an opportunity to mature, to develop a strong sense of self-confidence that can only be earned by recognizing shortcomings and dealing with disappointments and failures.

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