Which is why I still recommend to businesses of a certain size: stick with Microsoft.
The energy generators and frequency regulators they work with must be of a certain size.
If it gets to a certain size, the fish is going to feel like it's full.
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"Unless you are a certain size you haven't got a chance, " Graff said in November.
But unlike other networks, social networks lose value once they go beyond a certain size.
All companies of a certain size are obliged to give preference to blacks in hiring and promotion.
And for most companies of a certain size, there is no compelling reason to change your Microsoft infrastructure.
But once such businesses get beyond a certain size, the authors argue, the returns to scale diminish quickly.
For example, it wants to limit funds to a certain size, and to keep a lid on their investment abroad.
This system simply cannot work when the number of payers shrinks beyond a certain size relative to number of the recipients.
Every retailer that has reached a certain size--Wal-Mart, Sears, McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people )--inevitably plateaus.
The coalition government has announced a cap on benefits which would prevent payments increasing when families increase beyond a certain size.
Also, once you reach a certain size, you develop more sophisticated management systems that can support even larger and more diversified operations.
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Every retailer that has reached a certain size--Wal-Mart, Sears, McDonald's--inevitably plateaus.
Historically, the technology industry has been sized at a certain size.
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Another suggestion: Require that companies over a certain size offer LTC insurance and force workers to buy unless they make an active choice to reject insurance.
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WSJ:The main challenge in finding investments in China seems to be that many companies have grown rapidly to a certain size, but governance has not kept up pace.
These ions are thought to help create new particles called aerosols and, when aerosols grow above a certain size, they become the seeds around which cloud droplets form.
The good news is that below a certain size, depending on what they're made of, some near-Earth asteroids don't pose any danger, burning up as they pass through the atmosphere.
The government may simply insist that 3D printer manufacturers install software that prevents printing of a hollow cylinder of a certain size, a firing pin, or a certain type of spring.
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That said, there might actually be benefits for taxpayers and others shareholders: as Andy Haldane of the Bank of England has argued, once banks get to a certain size, diminishing returns may set in.
Supermarkets, for instance, like uniformity so if they want, say, apples of a certain size and in a particular state of ripeness, a farmer could use the model to identify exactly where such apples are growing.
Built by connecting a number of standard modules each measuring 384mm both in height and width and weighing eight kilograms, the Diamond Vision OLED is scalable and can be designed to flexibly form a certain size or shape, even against rounded surfaces.
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The main knock against H.264 is that the ideas behind it are patented, so any software makers who want to encode or decode H.264 video have to pay into a licensing pool called MPEG LA once their audiences reaches a certain size.
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Now, nothing is free, and it's true that when reform becomes law, businesses of a certain size who do not offer their workers health care coverage may be required to contribute to the costs -- and that makes a lot of small business owners nervous.
Unless you believe, as Marsh's Mr Smith did until recently, that beyond a certain point size is no longer an advantage.
Yet it seems that there are few real cost synergies once banks reach a certain relatively modest size.
Impose a fee on banks whose size exceeds a certain percentage of GDP to cover the cost they would impose on taxpayers in a bailout, thus eliminating the implicit subsidy of their too-big-to-fail status.
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During one recent call a shopper wanted to know when her size in a certain formal shoe she wanted for her wedding would be available.
Bidders can see the average price is for a certain section and what size discount other people received.
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