But customers typically associate it with, and businesses too often tolerate it as, promptly addressing a problem.
"They associate it with twangy, hillbilly music and don't realise there are many different styles within the genre, " he said.
Financial firms are sometimes reluctant to look at big data because they associate it with the open source Hadoop, he added.
When they think of Britain, young Japanese associate it with funky music and (especially among those who have not visited) a certain sense of style and tradition.
Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice".
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The main feature of irony that makes us associate it so closely with hipsters is that lots of hipsters are essentially downwardly mobile young people who are putting themselves to some practical use, however small or marginal, instead of sitting around getting obese.
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In some ways, then, the expression "white elephant" carries with it in Thailand a very different meaning from that which we associate with it in the West.
Looking back, Pynchon says she knew what she was saying was over the line and would have handled it differently had the associate called her on it.
Before Faye testified, jurors heard a similarly disturbing description of Jackson in his final days from "This Is It" associate producer Alif Sankey.
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Reggie White is the named plaintiff the case is always associate with, but it was filed on behalf of all current and future players.
More recently, I wrote and directed a comedic Web series called "Living the Dream" (featured on the aptly named BitterLawyer.com), which is about a clueless first-year associate trying to make it big at an unusually cruel and prestigious law firm.
The Manila Times, which the president said had libelled him, was recently closed down, amid reports that it had been acquired by an associate of Mr Estrada for the express purpose of silencing it.
When I joined McGladrey as an assurance associate 34 years ago, it was a middle market firm that served middle market clients.
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For instance, a sign company could not tell an associate of mine how much it cost them for an particular job they undertook.
In a society that teaches us to associate morality with religion, it is easy to assume that a strong relationship exists between piety and pity, between god and good.
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Mr. DAN COLLINS (Former Deputy Associate Attorney General): It would discourage combatants from complying with the laws of war if they could claim its protections without having to obey its obligation.
Between working overnight shifts and caring for her 3-year-old daughter, Ms. Calvert said she has little time to move beyond her associate degree but knows that it increasingly is important to her employer, which she said offers a pay raise to nurses with higher degrees.
Laurie Kirsch, the senior associate dean at Katz, says it isn't about turning a profit.
It enables us to associate, and be friends, with each other and with the gods, our superiors.
It is hard to associate some of the teenage lads and wheezing middle-aged men, hoping to join some informal village-based militia, with any kind of organised fighting force.
He plans to sell the code, license it to companies that might be interested in using it, and the associate claims that attorneys have given the go-ahead for this.
They did this partly because those states have fewer overtly antigay laws, but also because the size and anonymity of a city makes it much easier to associate with like-minded people and live as you please.
With numbers like that, it becomes very difficult to associate number of followers or fans with true influence.
Mr. CLAUDE CANIZARES (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): These are excellent scientists, and two of them actually served as associate administrators within NASA. I think it's a shame not to have strongly opinionated but very smart people giving advice.
If we revisit the worm meat example, a brand might re-associate this rumor with positive information by suggesting it is a delicacy used in French cuisine.
He added that it had been "difficult to associate" the glowing character references he had heard for Stott with what he had seen in the footage.
"We are just coming from a bad drought and the Maasai might associate the famine with this buffalo and kill it, " she told the AFP news agency.
Add to that the exclusivity of these products that makes consumers associate a brand with that specific retailer and it makes it hard not to include Sears on a list of retail visionaries.
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