Strategic options allow companies to hint at and execute radical adjacencies, surprise moves into new markets.
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What was intended as a surprise turned into an embarrassment when my cousin started apologizing for the no-show.
Speculation is also rife that Mr. Pandit was ousted due to concerns over his performance, so this surprise resignation fits into the current developments very clearly.
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The market expects to be given some clarity into the surprise decision to keep rates on hold.
Tries from Wikus van Heerden and Breyton Paulse helped the Boks into a surprise 17-0 lead in Sydney.
This propelled Mr Ahmadinejad, then a political novice, into a surprise second-round triumph against Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president.
At that point, the monarch is emerging as a triumphal figure, not even three years into his surprise reign on the abdication of his older brother, Edward VIII.
All I know is that Taylor Swift constantly looks like she just walked into a surprise party she already knew about and Sheryl Crow had nothing to do tonight.
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So, it's perhaps no surprise that the company got into the act itself.
So it comes as little surprise that, after explorations into pre-Castro Cuba with the brilliant Buena Vista Social Club and Mambo Sinuendo, Cooder has shifted his focus once again.
One US credit card company turned this kindness principle into a rather mechanistic surprise.
Perhaps that should have been no surprise as both teams were heading into the match on the back of resounding defeats.
One surprise was that players put themselves into risky situations more often than epidemiologists allow for in their models.
Footage released by authorities captured their surprise as their illicit date turned into a rough tackle by a posse of officers.
So it came as no surprise when third place came back into play after Chelsea won just three of its last six.
The raises are based on worker performance reviews held earlier this year, and come as no surprise to anyone who has stepped into any of the over 350 Apple stores around the world.
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It will be no surprise if the lead director evolves into something akin to a non-executive chairman at a typical big British business a development of the past decade that has certainly reined in the typical British chief executive (though he was never as all-powerful as his American counterpart).
The surprise announcement actually came about five minutes into Rice's opening statement to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
No surprise that many of the folks brought into Palm by Apple veteran Jon Rubinstein come straight from Apple.
That the government has taken a much broader and less confined interpretation of the law into account is no great surprise.
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We have an amazing opportunity to channel this into breakthrough new products that surprise and delight, excite and ignite our players.
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Miss Slade has been thrust into the spotlight after the surprise inclusion of Arsenal player Walcott, also 17, in England's World Cup squad.
There are thousands of volumes of erotica for women on bookstore shelves, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that one of them occasionally breaks into the mainstream.
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Both Pearson and city officials expressed surprise that so many students made it into the 99th percentile under the new test, results that were nearly identical to the previous year.
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It could well translate though into eliminating the element of surprise upon which untold numbers of American lives, and perhaps even our ultimate success in the liberation of Iraq, may turn.
It could well translate though into eliminating the element of surprise -- upon which untold numbers of American lives, and perhaps even our ultimate success in the liberation of Iraq, may turn.
Luis Darforth gave me an agreeable surprise a few weeks ago by coming into the hotel one night, he told me that he was going to give up his Centennial trip for the sake of going to Pleasant Ridge with us.
He also was the first player out of Ohio State's locker room before the second half, because of course he was, and waited to high-five every teammate behind him in the tunnel, like that is a surprise, and then nuzzled his way into the huddle for a pep talk, as if you would expect anything else.
Unlike many of her Hollywood counterparts who wear runway looks exactly like as they are shown on the catwalk, Fan Bingbing knows how to inject an element of surprise and even a touch of kookiness into her ensembles, whether its through an improvised turban like the one she donned at an Elie Saab show or through the many incarnations of her hair style.
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Cochrane was a surprise appointment back in January and he came into the job vowing to introduce change at Mourneview Park.
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