Now Amazon is a proponent of the MFA to remove any advantage from its competitors.
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Fixed-income fund investors are seeking any advantage they can find in this low interest rate environment.
If they do come off, they must return when it is safe to do so without gaining any advantage.
No surprise then that options market-makers want to keep any advantage they can.
But the government unions argue that any advantage they receive disappears after the data is adjusted for factors such as education.
"Based on the evidence we saw at the time, and from subsequent analysis, we believe any advantage was ceded, " he added.
If a recording has any advantage over a live performance, it's that listening to the music isn't influenced by watching the musicians.
But it does not give Amazon any advantage over other on-line retailers, who by also using Ingram immediately have access to a similar range of books.
Opposing lawyers will press any advantage they have, and personal information on sites like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn is like decoded bulletins from enemy territory.
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Also, while his artificial limbs are lighter than human legs, he must push off the ground harder to get the same thrust, which cancels out any advantage.
Of course, just a few years later the whole sector was made obsolete by Netflix, and any advantage Blockbuster would have gained would have only been temporary.
Furthermore, if fiduciaries of a large plan have any advantage over small plans it is the deeper pockets they can draw from for capital resources to retain outside experts.
The yen's rise against the New Zealand dollar, about 7% over the last week, has pretty much wiped out any advantage a trader had in parking money in the Kiwi.
The stewards based their decision on a belief that Hamilton had not fully ceded any advantage he gained from cutting the corner when he overtook Raikkonen at the subsequent corner.
He was able -- with the help of doctors and biomedical engineers -- to make a compelling case that his Cheetah blades didn't give him any advantage on the field.
He claims Unilever was the first major food company to introduce a line of low-carb options in the U.S. Yet any advantage that may have given the company was short-lived.
The forthcoming peace talks in Libya may be making things worse as the rebel factions and the Sudanese government jostle for any advantage on the ground that they can take to the conference table.
If the appeal is permitted, the court will have to decide whether Hamilton surrendered any advantage he gained by cutting the Bus Stop chicane when he let Raikkonen back past him on the pit straight.
Kim then shifts into sales-mode by pointing out that Samsung's more power-efficient 240Hz LCDs and Plasmas with highly-reflective black panels and LED edge-lighting are quickly cutting into any advantage offered by OLEDs -- including thinness if you factor in the additional electronics you'd have to slap onto the back of those 3-mm thick OLED panels to create a TV.
And he still studies up on his opponents, looking to use any competitive advantage and exploit any weakness.
Anyone being equally equipped eliminated any production advantage, and left only price to complete.
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That is unfortunate as only long-term strategies will now win back any economic advantage.
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"I don't see any big advantage to doing a lot at once, " he says.
A. There is hardly any tax advantage (or disadvantage) to creating a capital loss carryforward, as will be discussed more fully below.
But likewise, GM should not be subject to compensatory or otherwise countervailing policies designed to punish or remove any perceived advantage.
And rest assured marketers on all sides of these patent disputes watch intently and look for any competitive advantage they can capitalize on.
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The problem continues there even though the airport's very high volume of wheelchairs tends to cancel any timesaving advantage from making a bogus request.
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The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes, said it was time that Labour came to its senses, but argued that it would not gain them any electoral advantage.
If no investor had any clear advantage over another, would there be a range of yearly returns in the mutual fund industry from significant losses to 50% profits, or more?
Any financial advantage the Conservative Party may enjoy over Labour in the coming election is likely to be more than offset by the continuing perception of sleaze which surrounds Tory fundraising.
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