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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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.
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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Reggie White is the named plaintiff the case is always associate with, but it was filed on behalf of all current and future players.
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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With numbers like that, it becomes very difficult to associate number of followers or fans with true influence.
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.
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.
"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.
Although Westerners associate the Brotherhood with radicalism, in recent decades it has become largely a movement of urban, middle-class professionals.
"If people think of it at all, they tend to associate engineering with heavy industry and civil infrastructure, " the academy says on its website.
It enables us to associate, and be friends, with each other and with the gods, our superiors.
It is pollution not revolution that most folk associate with aquaculture.
While brand-based TLDs may see some form of success, it will not be the type that most associate with domains, which is typically based on scaling and growing business.
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If anything, a clever pigeon would associate the red button with less work, and might prefer it.
We commonly associate extreme secrecy around a product design with Apple, but it now looks to be in vogue with all the major technology companies: just days after Samsung revealed the Galaxy S III's secret sauce, Microsoft has explained to TechRadar that it developed its surprise new Surface tablets under a similarly tight watch.
Can it be that the Democrats wish to associate their slightly wooden candidate with a dead language?
"Although we tend to associate hookups with college students, people of all ages are doing it, " says Justin Lehmiller, a social psychologist and Harvard researcher.
It is also in the process of establishing an associate airline in India with local partners.
It's the kind of picture that you want to associate with like if there's been a tsunami, you know, bricks flying all over the place.
Perhaps it's time for Lulu to drop a name that we both associate with less than stellar behavior.
It continues to be a haven for advertisers that do not want to associate themselves with a political agenda.
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Now it wants to set the groundwork for the kind of rapid economic development people associate with Brazil, India, China and Russia, but which IBM and others believe can happen in many parts of the world.
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