SEIPI, the Philippines' electronics-industry association, the country retains a critical mass in the chip-making business.
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Gregory Jette, an analyst at Jefferies in Paris, said Friday the company lacked mid-term prospects and the critical mass, possessed by the large players of the industry such as L'Oreal, to achieve substantial growth.
On most Wednesday nights for the last seven years, hundreds of cyclists have joined in the Ciclopaseo ride, a Critical Mass-style pedal through the city streets that is about the fun of riding and also stands as a political message about cycling rights in the city.
Petersburg, this location has widely been criticized by team officials, members of the media, and fans alike as inconveniently off-center from the critical population mass of the region.
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Owners are hoping that by locking out the players and withholding pay, a critical mass of the rank-and-file will break with the leadership and push for a new deal that includes concessions.
The rest is history: Saddam exploited the opportunity thus afforded to him to acquire state-of-the-art manufacturing technology and componentry critical to his efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction, advanced conventional armaments and other dangerous capabilities.
The consultation on the bill - which calls for Wales to have fewer universities "with greater critical mass" - comes at a time of change in higher education.
Because of the power they consolidate, they easily reach critical mass and so avoid the Catch-22 of having to persuade sellers to join when buyers are scarce.
Even as New York entrepreneurs can rub elbows with the founders of Foursquare at tech events, the overall scene still lacks the critical mass of entrepreneurs who have successfully exited billion-dollar companies, are starting again and ready to help local entrepreneurs or its own PayPal Mafia.
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Now, eight months after the voice-over-IP company was officially integrated into Microsoft, a critical mass of privacy activists are demanding answers.
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The Culture for Development Indicator Suite (CDIS) provides a timely response to these challenges, building on the current favourable political context, greater capacity for data collection, and the critical mass of field experiences from large-scale projects.
Of course up-and-comers like Jacksonville, Charlotte, and Oklahoma City, and even Portland (10th place), still lack the critical mass of high-end business services of many of the larger, more established metropolitan areas.
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These app developers found, however, that the "check-in" never created enough critical mass to create a viable social TV community on its own.
"Pushing the federal government with multiple lawsuits before we have a critical mass of states recognizing same-sex relationships or suing in states where the courts aren't ready is likely to lead to bad rulings, " the coalition said.
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Could the University of Texas have found a race-neutral way to reach that critical mass?
That was not enough to deliver the critical mass Apple needed in its battle against the IBM-compatibles.
Instead transcending capitalism requires a critical mass of people who have experienced- not the change of mind that our business schools labor so hard to produce- but the change of heart that we usually associate with a spiritual experience.
Can Pogo get the critical mass of planes and customers to make that 1, 500-hour assumption work?
But beginning in the mid-1990s he also advised doctors on how they could accumulate the "critical capital mass" needed to maintain their lifestyle in retirement.
We're thrilled that Ona has stepped in to fill a need in the high-end market, though, and we're cautiously optimistic that critical mass could be achieved if production volume increases and prices stoop down a bit.
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The fall of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia and the events in Egypt caught U.S. officials off-guard and brought that debate to critical mass.
Number two, for ASEAN now: with all due respect, ASEAN has become too small to have a critical mass, to be really important in idea-creation and influencing the whole process.
Unfortunately, this critical mass of brain-power proved pretty useless when it came to governing the country.
But when a company gets to a critical mass with its product offering, then there are big-time benefits from the heft and credibility of a strategic investor.
This is the point where the process gets even messier and where anti-biotech activists and lawyers do their best to gum up the works in hopes of generating a critical mass of negative public opinion.
Since the mid-1990s the strategic roll-up has been a corporate fad: Large acquirers buy smaller players in fragmented industries, reaching for critical mass, McDonald's-like uniformity and that beloved state of bliss called synergy.
Can democracy "long endure" if democracies lack a critical mass of citizens who cherish the common good as well as individual freedom, who complement self-reliance with voluntary charitable service to others, and who understand that they have obligations to future generations, not just to me, myself and I?
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