This allows the island nation to effectively manage a closed loop on industrialized and urbanized water.

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To harness the true potential of social media, companies need to establish a closed-loop ecosystem, create interactions, structured conversations and condition responses.

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He credits another Vietnam vet, Federal Express founder Frederick Smith, with teaching him to create a "closed loop" linking products, branding, information and finance.

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Conversely, it is the ambitious opportunities for crony capitalism that fade into obscurity because a closed-loop bitcoin economy not requiring meatspace exchanges would emerge and accelerate.

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There are many areas of overlap between biomimicry and "cradle-to-cradle" particularly in the way that ecosystems present a great model of closed loop systems in which any waste from one organism becomes the nutrient for something else.

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Outside the U.S., Amex has taken a step away from its closed loop model where it issues its own credit cards and also acts as the acquirer for merchants accepting the card.

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Beyond the relocation resources that we baked into the static content portion of LiveWork Portland, we have closed the loop even farther with a new initiative, 2 Degrees Portland.

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