Some Networkers are so persistent they rack up tens of thousands of tweets, follows, and reciprocal followers.
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That is not to deny that antitrust action is sometimes right even in high-tech industries: Microsoft's dominance became so large, and so persistent, that it deterred rivals from innovating.
Admittedly, however, bank managers have yet to pluck up courage to lend more than token amounts to deserving non-state firms one reason why China's credit crunch has proved so persistent.
So whether it is our hopeless good nature that wishes to believe in the altruism of the free gift giver (unlikely) or our burning desire to receive something-for-nothing (more likely), the freebie-seeking thread is so persistent in us that the theme remains a constant in money and life.
This plane, which AeroVironment hopes to start testing by next spring, is designed to fill a surveillance gap that military and intelligent services are desperate to address, so-called persistent surveillance.
The effects were so large and persistent that they could not be attributed to the direct effects of the grants: people could not have sold enough milk, eggs or meat to explain the income gains.
They said the NYPD's actions were so "flagrant and persistent" that an auditor should be appointed.
More modern, more effective chemicals can be used in smaller quantities and are less persistent, so they disappear after a couple of weeks, while heavy metals hang around.
Silk keeps a persistent connection open to EC2 so that there is always a connection at the ready to start loading the next page.
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Older children and adults who have whooping cough often appear to have a bad cold or persistent cough that can be so severe that it causes vomiting.
The reason the detector is buried so deeply is to keep all but the most persistent of sub-atomic particles away from it.
There was also a persistent fear that the government might have so over-extended itself with debt that a general failure of markets was inevitable.
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The last problem intrinsic to the US's War on Terror is the persistent and powerful strain of appeasement that guides so much of US policy towards the Muslim world.
This minor contractual quibble should be ironed out so that we can roll this initiative out, so that we can start cutting the harm that prolific and persistent burglars are causing in Bedfordshire.
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There was so much that stood out from 2010: The BP oil spill, persistent rates of incredibly high unemployment, the lack of progress on global warming, record corporate profits on Wall Street with record pain on Main Street, people being thrown out of their homes and a deal to make the rich even richer by an extension of the Bush era tax cuts.
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It took a while to figure out the proper siting, anchoring, and operating parameters required to run a fish farm so far from shore, but Brian, like any dedicated entrepreneur, was persistent.
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So, to put this in human terms: a mother whose child has persistent, uncontrolled asthma has a zero or near-zero chance of being rejected by a doctor if the child has private insurance.
After persistent urging from supporters to leave the government, she refused to do so until the latest scandal broke.
And so one thing I hope people have seen during this lame duck -- I am persistent.
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Therefore they have a persistent interest in short-term, high-return investment channels, which so far they have found in stocks and real estate.
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And for the first time, plants using the worst chemicals--substances such as mercury, labeled persistent bioaccumulative toxins--would be able to use the short form, so long as they use less than 500 pounds of that chemical and release none into the environment.
For instance, cholesterol drugs are so good at preventing second heart attacks that giving them to people who have had heart attacks or persistent chest pain might save money.
"Because of that I must teach my child that this is so and put that principle into practice and when my child persistently does wrong then I must show pain will follow persistent disobedience, " he added.
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