Today, it is facing competition from mass culture and a lack of interest amongst the young.
And this cannot simply be attributed to a lack of interest in international affairs.
Gift certificates are just too easy and will communicate a lack of interest in finding something more meaningful.
Chinese consumers showed a lack of interest in Apple products last month when the third-generation iPad was released.
One issue: A lack of interest in the Nokia 822 and HTC Windows 8x phones that Verizon is selling.
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Clearly correlation between tablet growth spikes heading into holidays and a lack of interest of purchasing notebooks in the same period.
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It is not a lack of interest in new cars that prevents battered old vehicles from being replaced with shiny new ones.
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Last year the Miss Guernsey contest was cancelled because of a lack of interest and Guernsey Deputy Sandra James called it an "outdated spectacle".
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So 3-D enthusiasts conclude that the drop in 3-D revenue did not come from a lack of interest, but from a lack of 3-D screens.
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Social peculiarities can be subtle or drastic, ranging from a lack of interest in spending time with other people to problems reading social etiquette and emotionally inappropriate behaviors.
He said there had not been a "completely new" antibiotic registered since 2003 - "partially because of a lack of interest by drugs companies as antibiotics are not particularly profitable".
Patients were not treated with consideration or respect and a ban on caffeinated drinks, aerosols and proper cutlery indicated a lack of interest in patients' dignity and personal choices, inspectors said.
Howard Wheeldon, who covers capital goods for Prudential-Bache, thinks the stock is a bargain, but he has stopped covering the company because of a lack of interest from his clients--a positive sign for contrarian investors.
Potter said Mbvoumin and CFS " work tirelessly on a shoestring budget to provide support and education to vulnerable and exploited young African footballers", despite a lack of interest and funding from the wider football community.
Other reasons for leaving: Ten percent called it a waste of time, 10% cited a lack of interest in the content, and 9% said they were unhappy with the amount of drama and gossip on the site.
Along with dressing inappropriately and posting compromising content on social media sites, 60% of hiring managers said that Millennials show a lack of interest in the job by failing to ask questions about the company or the position.
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He has been working on data standards since 1999 but found that reaching agreement on a global standard proved impossible with all the competing interests among standards bodies, commercial and financial services networks combined with a lack of interest from banks which had already developed more or less satisfactory identification systems of their own.
The problem wasn't a lack of scientific interest in adult musical education.
He might even use Khartoum's mosques as a rallying-point for Mr bin Laden, in whom the faithful have so far shown a striking lack of interest.
However, security concerns and a lack of consumer interest led credit card companies to deem the benefit of the technology not worth the cost of equipping cards.
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Google's resolve to bring WebM video streaming to the masses doesn't seem to have been weakened by a general lack of interest from the rest of the tech world, and the company's announced that each and every new YouTube upload will now be automatically transcoded into a WebM version.
And I think what he was sort of confused by, and I was too, was this sort of feeling in the movie industry that the problem of race has been solved, at least in the movies already, I think because movies don't want to deal with it anymore, partially because it's one of those things they think automatically spells a lack of audience interest.
That, to his own constituency, signalled a supposedly reassuring lack of interest in resuming the long-suspended talks.
Bencik writes that he previously believed the company would be able to refinance its short-term debt, and that it still might be possible, but noted that the debt news suggest a current lack of investor interest.
The article mentions that Oneok Partners had called off plans to build a Bakken pipeline for lack of interest from drillers.
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Again, therefore, Olson sees the failure to provide these rights as springing from the ruler's lack of a sufficiently encompassing interest.
Microsoft has promoted blogging within its company, and if you visit the blogs there you see a similar phenomenon: lack of interest.
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And by pricing the V-Wagon the same as the coupe, the company didn't even bother to disguise its lack of interest in a margin.
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So shocking was the lack of interest in A-Rod's price tag that the players union even declared publicly it would look into the possibility of collusion (see SportsMoney blog: "Player's Union Way Off Base").
The apparent lack of interest in running a station in Glasgow or Edinburgh will be a disappointment to UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who has long championed the concept of local TV.
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