For example, from the above list, the people who produce telephone books simply do not have the right to prevent anyone coming up with a better way of finding telephone numbers.

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They proceed along an S-shaped curve, with a few trail blazers lighting the way, followed every growing numbers of imitators who adopt the idea with its value demonstrated, but, then, a few laggards who for stupidity, pride, tradition, or whatever, hold on the methods that are outdated and unprofitable.

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Let me put these numbers another way: if you lived in Vegas and had a dinner party with your eight closest friends, one of them would likely be in the process of losing their home.

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He made it all the way to the semi-finals, missing out on a new personal best but swapping race numbers with world champion Kirani James.

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With such a massive overrun in pay, the only way to meet the cash spending plans was to cut numbers instead.

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