Its leaders chose to ignore the long-term trend away from traditional retail toward on-line shopping.
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Subsidies waste resources because they re-direct land, labor, and capital away from higher-value and toward lower-value uses.
But Circuit City demonstrated that in a market dominated by a long-term trend away from fixed stores and toward on-line purchases, every retailer is bound to struggle.
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The government hopes to steer China's economy--and its image--away from dirty factories and toward global brands and high-tech outfits.
Kinder says he's looking for other pipeline partnerships to buy, and Kinder Morgan is expanding into terminals that handle coal and other dry bulk materials, hoping to capitalize on long-term trends such as the shift by electric utilities away from Appalachian coal toward cleaner- burning western coal.
As supplies of oil are being sought in increasingly inhospitable regions of the globe to meet rising demand against finite supply, the hunt is on for uranium in the face of an emphasis to turn-away from fossil-fuel based power stations and toward nuclear.
Those debates, however, obscure the more obvious point: We should be turning our attention -- and should have turned it long ago -- away from oil and toward greener options.
One of the blessings of the last few centuries has been that we have adopted economic, political, and social institutions that have channeled the pursuit of self-interest away from predation and toward production.
Western Digital Corp. (WDC) : A lot of investors are sour on this California-based firm, a longtime leader in the hard drive and digital storage business, because of the shift away from hard drives toward solid-state and flash drives.
Companies around the globe are learning that while cloud computing has many virtues, perhaps chief among them is its ability to help business leaders shift huge chunks of IT budgets away from low-value infrastructure and toward customer-facing growth and innovation.
Now a boom in exports to China is pushing Brazil away from high-value manufactures and back toward commodities.
Already by 1996 the Web was mutating away from static, catalog-style pages toward sites that could change on the fly.
In 2009 Xerox acquired Affiliated Computer Services, which tilted the business model away from printing and more toward add-on services.
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Over the last five years, however, states have been moving away from the old returned-mail requirement toward a new account "inactivity" standard.
Years ago IBM began to shift its long-term strategy away from hardware and toward software and services that come with far better margins.
Representative JOHN BOEHNER (Republican, Ohio): It's clear that Senate Democrats and Republicans alike are moving away from the Reed-Kennedy bill and toward the House position.
The San Francisco Symphony's Mr. Theil said ticket sales have grown more slowly than in the past and that the orchestra had seen a shift away from season subscriptions and toward one-time and last-minute purchases that are costlier for the symphony to sell.
At the same time, on the internal side, CIOs must be primarily concerned with bending the IT budget curve away from low-value legacy infrastructure and toward new technologies that liberate precious funding for innovation, because those rapidly emerging marketplace realities touched on above will simply overwhelm traditional systems and traditional IT approaches.
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In tough economic periods, young talent migrates away from financial engineering jobs and toward start-ups.
That's because PBMs steer consumers away from generics and toward more expensive brand-name drugs, for which they're rewarded by manufacturers.
Also, what will be the impact of the long-term cultural movement away from consumerism and toward a Secular Spiritualism that places greater value on a simpler life?
On Susan Werner's newest CD, her sixth, the singer-songwriter moves distinctively away from folk and toward the jazzy American songbook style recently embraced by artists such as Rod Stewart and Norah Jones.
From Atkins' vantage point, even if the energy bill dies in the Senate (as some predict it may), her company is positioned to reap the benefits of the transition away from fossil fuels and toward a lower-carbon economy.
This could become an advantage as Medicare moves away from the existing fee-for-service system toward paying hospitals a flat sum, or "bundle, " for each patient with a given condition.
More worrisome, perhaps, says Michael Robinet, vice president of vehicle forecasting for csm Worldwide, is that Opel has expertise GM needs as the industry shifts away from large trucks and suvs toward more fuel-efficient passenger cars.
Those three businesses have built impressive market share by recognizing how patterns of entertainment consumption are shifting away from programmed, scheduled packages and toward on-demand, a la carte snacking and making it easy for consumers to incorporate that shift into their own lives.
Thus, I fear the end result of allowing third-party financing to flourish is a slow but steady shift away from the traditional understanding of law as a profession toward a conception of law as just another money-making venture, where the investors inevitably call the shots.
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Then IT, and all other functions, can strategically reallocate time and resources away from the "nice-to-haves" and toward the things that truly drive the business.
Rob moved in the other direction -- toward the enemy, drawing their guns away from his team and bringing the fire of all those insurgents down upon himself.
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The goalkeeper had to make his first save in the sixth minute, diving quickly to push the ball away as Gareth Barry's cross-shot was poked toward the goal by Toure.
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