And how long can banks afford to ignore the minefields of insight from social media?
But there are an equal number of minefields just under that radar screen as well.
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Their homes and farms were razed by the Taleban, destroyed by US bombing or made useless by minefields.
Then again, the artists have become "more adroit" at navigating through political minefields.
The main benefit of this is that smartphones are relatively ubiquitous, even in resource-constrained areas where minefields are prevalent.
He moves through the scholarly minefields with sharp eyes and historical good sense.
Of course, the professionals of the aid world have jobs to keep, and those jobs are not in minefields.
In early 2010, their platoon was sent to a patrol base in a part of Helmand province notorious for makeshift insurgent minefields.
Borders once sealed by minefields are now just lines on the map.
The President's Council on Bioethics has recently been looking at ways to avoid the ethical minefields and still allow research with these cells.
An outmoded patent application review process and a thicket of overbroad, overlapping software patents creates minefields for everyone from startups to major tech companies.
The net result, the researchers hope, is that deadly minefields are cleared more quickly and efficiently, preventing deaths and injuries that would otherwise have happened.
Until now, they were perhaps best known for the "human wave" attacks during the Iran-Iraq war that reportedly cleared out minefields for the professional military.
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It says joining the ban would force it to defuse minefields along the border between North and South Korea, threatening the safety of U.S. troops on the peninsula.
Here, on the northern frontier with Lebanon, the mountain border is relatively porous, but in recent days on the Syrian side fresh minefields have been laid.
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Democrats in Texas are far more conservative than many of their Washington counterparts, and the capital's political terrain has hidden minefields that go back for decades.
Globalizing local brands is full of minefields and broken dreams.
Among the other diplomatic minefields, China and Darfur stand out.
However, before he was demobbed, he was drafted on duty aboard another mine sweeper with responsibility for clearing the inshore minefields between Boulogne and Dieppe off the French coast.
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Dr. HILTERMAN: The Iranians would send these young - so-called volunteers across minefields where many were blown up, of course, many of these were teenagers, towards the Iraqi positions.
After the war, it was Dayan who removed the barbed wire, the minefields, and the walls that divided Jerusalem in order to give each holy place the dignity it deserved.
Teams of lawyers and psychologists often have to guide adult children who inherit a business through family minefields who runs the firm, who gets bought out, whose spouse or child goes on the payroll.
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Only the U.S. military and those of other law-abiding nations will be denied a means, through the use of marked and monitored minefields, of reducing the costs and increasing the probability of victory in future conflicts.
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Military sources also said officials are concerned that -- in addition to booby-trapped minefields -- about 3, 000 unexploded NATO ordnance in Kosovo may pose a danger to peacekeepers and refugees once they begin to enter the war-torn province.
If Mr Bush successfully navigates the legislative minefields over the coming months, while at the same time defining his political philosophy for a national audience, he could then activate his already formidable network of supporters and financial backers.
Only the U.S. military -- and those of other law-abiding nations -- will be denied a means, through the use of marked and monitored minefields, of reducing the costs and increasing the probability of victory in future conflicts.
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While I don't expect the great minds of the WEF to provide any clear answers or solutions, I do hope that when it comes to the next crises, they have the resilient dynamism to guide us smoothly through any economic minefields.
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