Eighty percent of all business startups do not exist after five years (at least in the U.S.).
If such contracts cannot be made with confidence, the corresponding market may not exist at all.
If your cost accounting system is not up to snuff, or does not exist at all, where do you begin?
The point is, conventional wisdom says it should not exist at all.
All of these places could not exist without a dedicated local customer base that seems to put paid to DC's transience brand.
Without it life would not exist at all.
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Hidden in the cold legalese and legislative word-smithing is the following result: if a document could interfere with some sort of enforcement proceedings (very broadly defined by 5 U.S.C. 552 (c)), the agency does not simply deny the request for the document, but actually is instructed to act as if the document does not exist at all.
In a 2005 "Saturday Night Live" sketch, an actor playing Steve Jobs kept introducing smaller and smaller iPod models until he got to the "iPod Invisa, " which appeared not to exist at all.
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So middle age is a very real and distinctive phenomenon, one central to the success of our species - which places it in stark contrast to the mid-life crisis, which turns out not to exist at all.
There are those intellectuals who argue that scarcity would not exist if we would all just adjust our consumption patterns.
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There is a very fashionable and promoted ecosystem around Apple that, to date, does not exist as visibly, if at all, for Android phones.
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In effect, this theory says that all-you-can-eat buffets should not exist.
What I like most about this approach is that it recognizes digital health offers enabling technologies that provide improved approaches to solving fundamental problems that exist in many, if not all, functional areas.
Best of all would be a vaccine, which does not yet exist, at least in part because profit-driven drug firms have little incentive to invent one for a disease that affects mainly poor people.
The population has recovered, but the genetic diversity has not recovered so that all the Tasmanian devils that exist are so similar to one another genetically that their immune systems don't seem to be able to tell one from another.
They forged my checks, all made out to some New Jersey automotive shop that did not exist.
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After all if it was not for Scotland and our grandparents we would not exist.
If so, what about all those things that didn't exist back then--not just iPods and mobile phones but everyday items like wrinkle-free pants, effective sunscreens, prewashed salads-in-a-bag or comfy hotel beds?
But if politicians are upset over conflicts of interest that may or may not exist, maybe they ought to consider their role in all this.
All of these cleantech companies are building not geographic monopolies for which few alternatives exist, but commodity conversion businesses, whose economic viability is exquisitely sensitive to shifts in both feedstock prices and energy alternatives across global markets.
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It is not, in fact, regulation of commerce at all, but the creation of commerce through compulsion where voluntary transactions would not otherwise exist.
Unfortunately, all of these reforms require some form of political courage and honesty, which does not seem to exist in Washington.
Imagine if all travel were still booked through travel agents and Expedia, Hotwire, Priceline, etc. did not exist.
On the other hand, if you live your life as if God does not exist, and it turns out he does, you will have doomed yourself for all eternity.
It is time for us, now, to orchestrate the interactivity between our ecosystem stakeholders and identify the value chains that exist not just between our businesses and those of our customers, but among us all.
He was wary of a creeping relativism - the idea that all was a matter of opinion and preference and that Truth, with a capital "T" did not exist.
Putting aside for a minute all of the good reasons why such a creature, much like its cousin in Loch Ness, could not exist, just looking at this video a few times will do the trick.
Director John Landis described Harryhausen as a "true giant of the cinema" and said his creations were "not only the stars of those movies, but the main reason for those movies to exist at all".
Although the grand prize of all this searching would be to find a monopole, a close second would be a conclusive result that they do not exist.
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