It is not too firm but not too mushy, as I have experienced on some Apple laptops.

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Even supposing it is not a step too far for the firm, Millennium may find that big pharmaceutical companies start to perceive that a chemical engineer can be more of a rival than a friend.

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There have also been reports that Hon Hai has asked for a seat on Sharp's board of directors in exchange for the investment, something that the Japanese firm is not seen as too keen to accept.

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The fund was oversubscribed but the firm did not want to raise too much cash.

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Although 1010data works in big data terrain, it does not use Hadoop which is too slow for most financial services firm.

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Not because it would be too difficult, says Aaron Portnoy, a researcher at the security vulnerability tracking firm Tipping Point, but because it would be too easy.

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Chris Lucas from Amey, the firm that carries out gritting for the area, said roads across the region were not too bad, although traffic was moving slower than normal.

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Household names these are not, but unlike Koreas struggling makers of me-too products such as cars and memory chips, Lims firm sticks to things others cant easily copy.

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My firm's research suggests that business and consumer confidence there is high, that there is not too much leverage in China's marketplace (leverage, not high prices, is what causes dangerous real estate and stock bubbles) and that the government is investing smartly in infrastructure projects like rail lines, subways and clean technology initiatives that improve economic efficiency and lower the costs of doing business.

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