By all the obvious measures, they appear to be entrenched, and if being entrenched means winning, then they are winning.
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The old-timers ask that the opt-out clause be entrenched and perhaps extended.
This suggests that the consumer slowdown may be less entrenched than was once thought.
Positive behaviors that appear to be now entrenched include saving more in 401(k) plans, paying down debt and taking greater care to invest wisely.
Could any manager be more firmly entrenched at the head of his company than Bill Gates?
Reed used his insight, based on some compelling math, to predict in the 1990s that eBay would soon outperform Yahoo even though Yahoo seemed to be as firmly entrenched at the time as Google is today.
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Only this time, the high-profile international source will be impossible for the entrenched scientific establishment to casually dismiss.
Mr Prodi isn't the only one who thinks entrenched attitudes could be part of Italy's problem.
But editor Sue Butler says it will be expanded to ''entrenched prejudice against women'' in the next edition.
"Entrenched management may be immune to career concerns, " write the authors.
Thirty years of entrenched behaviour cannot simply be banished with the wave of a hand.
All this means that grappling with entrenched joblessness deserves to be far higher on America's policy agenda.
Between SOPA, ACTA, The Megaupload shutdown and the massive Anonymous retaliatory attacks, two entrenched sides seem to be settling into a long, hard war.
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On the other, it must ensure that this year's rise in inflation, which it thinks will be temporary, does not become entrenched through higher inflation expectations.
Clearly as the ratio of buy ratings to neutral ratings on the stock indicates, there is a firmly entrenched strong case to be long Home Depot.
But big, entrenched incumbents should still be able to compete, because they have massive amounts of data about their customers, their products, their employees, and their competitors.
Even though she has been proved innocent, the beliefs which have condemned her to a life of exile are so deeply entrenched she may never be able to return safely.
Only by abandoning slogans and entrenched political posturing will we be able to turn to solutions that are rooted in science and economics.
Europe has hesitated more than the United States to subject its banks to measures like stress tests because of an entrenched belief that it would be better to wait for the market to recover and for the bad assets that banks still hold to pick up on value.
But being heard in a city dominated by entrenched interests and established industries will be a challenge.
But if a solid peace and something resembling a democracy were entrenched, that at least would be a legacy worth leaving behind.
Because of industry-specific tax regulations and entrenched managements, the deals are likely to be friendly.
Mr Sharansky's position is particularly exposed because he is the minister of the interior, and thus the man who must defend in court the entrenched Orthodox monopoly on determining who is to be registered as Jewish under the law.
But, with the war-minded nationalists still firmly entrenched in Serbia, the notion that independence might be negotiable seems far-fetched.
Tax reform will never be easy because there are winners and losers and lots of powerful entrenched interests.
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Although the problem of people sleeping rough on the streets may be easing, the social pathologies of big public housing estates remain entrenched.
It's that Iran's entrenched interests read Obama's meant-to-be-conciliatory remarks as a confession of weakness, a signal that the United States is at the end of its strategic rope.
England at the time could in no sense be described as a democracy, but the idea of accountability was entrenched at all levels of society by centuries of the common law, creating the political conditions for a constitutional monarchy and a dynamic economy.
Even though the Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphones have seen healthy holiday quarter sales and the recently launched Lumia 620 is showing a lot of promise in the mid-level market, there is no knowing how long Nokia will be able to sustain the initial demand, considering how well-entrenched iOS and Android have become as mobile ecosystems.
We need to move beyond entrenched and extreme positions to find ways in which we can be heard by one another, and in which we can accept and respect (and even value) difference.
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