Over the years these manufacturers built up a solid reputation and brand identity.

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And they'll build a solid reputation for compensation governance that can help enhance shareholder value in the long run.

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So in early 1987, he teamed up with Andre "Dr. Dre" Young, then a teenage father with a solid reputation as a disc jockey and producer.

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Similarly, the restaurant on the farm at Hraunsref, on the main Road 1, 70km north of Reykjavik, has built a solid reputation for carefully selecting their food suppliers.

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No, the final winner may well be Microsoft, whose Live Messenger already has a solid reputation in China as a must-have app for business, overreliance on creaky submarine cables notwithstanding.

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In the market, Exxon retains a reputation as having the most solid balance sheet in the sector.

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His reputation as a teacher and tactician was solid, but the Wolverines were not far removed from being one of the nation's glamour programs.

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Ultimately, it'll need to start opening up to programmers with hardware specifics if it wants them to target Moto handsets with any level of specificity, but in the meantime, it seems that they're already developing quite a reputation in the community for really helping prospective devs out -- a solid start.

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