But Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ), the antithesis of a category killer with aisles stocked with a vast spectrum of products, is posing a dire threat to this way of business.
Others again see deals as a way to lock in vast quantities of inexpensive feedstock in such places as Brazil.
So as we work down our debts, the hope of the government has been that the Chinese could be persuaded to invest some of their vast surpluses in our infrastructure, in a way that would ease the pain of our economic slowdown and would yield a decent return to China over the long term.
There is a vast collection of comments and analysis that says the best way to do that -- and this is vast, I mean, from a broad political spectrum -- the best way to do that is to take a balanced approach, significant cuts in defense -- I mean, in non-defense discretionary spending, significant cuts in defense spending, significant savings in entitlements, and significant savings from the tax code, plus interest.
Yet Iran, vast and restive, had a way of revealing itself, even in bad times.
Lest we forget, stocks have been on a one-way street for the vast majority of the last seven months.
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The Senate has already voted on and sent to the House a bill that would extend tax cuts for the vast majority of the American people, and do it in a way that is eminently more fair than what plan B represents.
Or to put it another way, he believes there is a vast amount of money locked up in industry's relatively inefficient supply chain - and if this money can be released smaller companies would have much less need for external finance.
If you don't have time to spend in one of the vast national parks, Australia's zoos and wildlife parks have come a long way from the miserable cement enclosures of yore, and these created environments provide unparalleled opportunities to observe Australia's rare and cryptic animals.
Would this not get in the way of a trade deal that could benefit the vast majority of Europeans who do not farm the French countryside?
Brunner and his colleagues used a technique called exome sequencing, which extracts only known genes from the vast expanse of DNA in the human genome as a way to reduce sequencing cost.
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According to scientists, the largest supply of alcohol resides in a vast alcohol cloud in the Milky Way that measures 288 billion miles across.
"The vast majority of those taking part have expressed their views in a way that was agreed with police, that was safe for motorists and that caused minimum disruption, " he said.
But 25% of the increase is traceable to changes in the way the government projects future costs in a program where the vast preponderance of acquisition costs still lie in the future.
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The cases you're talking about, most, most regrettable tragedies for everyone tied up in it, but they are extremely small in number and we do a very good job in stopping the vast majority of harassment cases getting that way.
But a group of biologists led by Eivind Hovig of the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo has managed to find a way to speed the process up, by linking together the vast quantities of disconnected biochemical information that have already been published.
"As one of the world's largest retailers of physical video discs and digital copyrighted content, our new NOOK Video service will give our customers another way to be entertained with a vast and growing digital video collection, as part of our expansive NOOK Store, " said William J.
In his vast and storied career, Norio worked his way through the ranks of Sony and achieved unparalleled success at a young age.
Offering the kind of hand holding services that guarantees a successful transition from anticipation through regression to successful consolidation is the only way to overcome the procrastination that kills the vast majority of potential deals.
This is reassuringly similar to the current film-based way of doing things, and appeals particularly to companies, such as Kodak, that already have a vast retail network in place and are trying to shore up sales of film and paper.
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