Sure, other companies had given away product before to win customers, but the convention was to cast as wide a net as possible rather than to focus on the frequency of exposure to the product.
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And surely it is sensible to cast your net as widely as possible in search of the world's fizziest talent?
Give out personal information on the net as rarely as possible.
The Home Office is casting its own net as wide as possible to garner innovative ideas - and is encouraging industry and even private individuals to come forward.
And the bankers, businessmen and politicians (many of whom are the same people) are all in this together, because they all have an interest in keeping the nation's notional net worth as high as possible.
Even so, for safety reasons, their dives were strictly time-limited, and each sortie saw a quick scramble to net as many different fish as possible before the required slow ascent to the surface.
After his win against Marcelo Rios on Tuesday, Henman began well, sticking to his preordained gameplan of getting to the net as early in the rallies as possible, hoping to cut out Agassi's passing shots.
She's a very solid baseline player and the plan was to go to the net, be aggressive and finish the point as quick as possible.
Dr. Krugman must be related to a safety net manufacturer since he wants the government to install as many as possible.
That leaves net creditor nations like Brazil and China, for instance, as possible bailout aids who can add to the IMF bailout funds.
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In any event, it's clear that the agency's goal is to impose as little regulation as possible while still trying to achieve the basics of net neutrality, and there's some serious precedent for success with that approach, as it's essentially the same way the FCC regulates wireless services.
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We are caught in a monumental ideological struggle over whether we want a big government that taxes everybody heavily and decides who gets what and who does what, or a smaller government that only provides a safety net for those in need and leaves citizens and businesses alone, as much as possible.
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Anything is possible, but as we stated earlier, Fed policy is the net result of several factors.
If raising public investment increases the government's assets, it's even possible that it could lower net debt - ie cut the numerator - as well as increasing GDP. (I said it was nerdy).
The net effect of these investment strategies is to be in the market, but diversify as much as possible across the risk exposures investors face.
If the government is successful in furthering economic reforms from opening up its financial markets to pension fund and other reforms to the social safety net it may be possible for China to avoid a debt crisis or growth stagnation as a result of its relatively heavy debt burden.
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