But too many companies focus on being excellent in only one axis of competition, not all.
Tuscaloosa and Joplin, while hardly tornado-free, are a ways off the usual major axis of destruction.
In particular, every electron has its own magnetic field aligned with the axis of its spin.
It adds up to an axis of oil that seriously threatens U.S. interests, according to Flynt Leverett.
Today motion sensing has progressed to being three-axes of acceleration, and three axis of rotation (technically called gyroscopes).
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Mr Schroeder has ignored warnings from US leaders and forged, in effect, a rival axis of power and diplomacy.
U.S. President George W. Bush labeled Iran as a member of the "axis of evil" after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Beyond the familiar axis of Oxford and Regent Streets, London plays host to a huge variety of shops, one-of-a kind boutiques and street markets.
On the vertical axis of each graph is the probability of autism.
And that demonstration of courage and integrity inspires others to behave in the same way, shifting the whole axis of the company toward trustworthiness.
The Geomagnetic pole is the north end of the axis of the geomagnetic field which surrounds the Earth and extends into space as the magnetosphere.
In this time frame, manufacturing was a key axis of competition.
Because Jupiter's axis of rotation does not quite line up with its magnetic axis, the moons that orbit the planet feel such a fluctuating magnetic force.
The axis of Phillips, Stephen Jones and Hook will be of particular interest to Jenkins who has been dealt a blow with injuries to Thomas and Sonny Parker.
France and Russia have formed their own axis of awkwardness to delay an American-sponsored resolution, casting doubt on whether forceful action would ensue should Iraq refuse to comply.
The global market may be shifting toward a different axis of power, but the modern American employee is evolving to compete in this new world, regardless of where its center lies.
Other that it is all natural caused by changes in solar activity, the angle of the axis of the earth, something, anything, and now cosmic rays and the formation of Aitken nuclei.
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Nevertheless, with Nicolas Sarkozy now in Paris, Angela Merkel in Berlin and soon, one assumes, Gordon Brown in London, the US feels that it has regained an axis of friendship in northern Europe.
Just as an example, note musical sketch from 2009 where comedy group Axis of Awesome amaze their audience by playing 36 modern pop songs over the same four-chord structure, in one long sequence.
On the horizontal axis of each graph, we have total traffic-related air pollution exposure, increasing in parts per billion (a part here would be a drop in a billion drops) from left to right.
Steven Bochco says his agent prepared him for a more muted reception to his first novel than that of his shows, including "Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law, " which tilted the axis of TV culture.
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Mr. LEVERETT: I think that if you really go down the list of what are the major challenges for American foreign policy, a very significant percentage of them get tied up with this axis of oil.
And, as Euler's successor, Carl Friedrich Gauss, was to discover, if you plot real numbers on one axis of a graph and imaginary ones on the other, you create a plane that represents both sorts of numbers.
Subjected not just to constant scrutiny but to deeply personal poking and twitching, the company and its two-legged resources themselves became a study: Of how a menacing axis of animal-rights zealots can nearly starve an enterprise they aim to ruin.
"We're finding that when you rub a natural biological surface that has an orientation - that has a grain, if you will - and you run that grain perpendicularly to the long axis of the ridges, we find a dramatic increase in friction, " Dr Dominy told BBC News.
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That is plotting cigarette tax revenue as a percentage of GDP (vertical axis) against the percentage of the pricer of a packet of cigarettes that is tax (horizontal axis).
The key, I concluded, is to plot the different kinds of consequences of work (y-axis) against the different types of groups (x-axis) that do the work.
According to her head of Sales, Axis has a more nurturing way of interacting with clients and employees.
In their simplest form, a piece of wood is spun around a fixed axis, and pieces of the material are chipped off with a blade.
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