In a way, Friend sees Rosetta, the company he co-founded, as a means to an end.

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W. all but ignores many other aspects of Bush's time in office and 11 September is mentioned only in passing as a means to an end.

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Is used to explain declining sales, demonize file-sharing or, in some cases, lauded as a means to an end in that piracy leads to more record purchasing.

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They view it as a means to an end.

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Every small business owner knows that the laws of finance will allow negative cash to be augmented with debt as a temporary means to an end, but not as a long-term way of life.

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I'm sorry if you think that I sound ungrateful but the fact of the matter is that, in the house I lived in as a kid, playing football for a living (or a means to an end) is regarded as a less-than-worthwhile contribution to the human race.

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Economic ties were viewed as much as a means to co-operation as an end in themselves.

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Although some NFL scouts projected him as a linebacker, Tampa Bay intends to give Means an opportunity to earn playing time as a defensive end.

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And while the concepts reach back to Shakespeare and Moliere, John Tillinger, the director of "Don't Dress for Dinner, " points out that Aristophanes's "Lysistrata, " in which women withhold sex as a means of bringing an end to war, qualifies, as well.

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Cameras, like the array of printers HP sells, are for the most part a means to an end: driving the consumption of more high-margin printing supplies such as ink cartridges.

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