There's also the latest BlackBerry, which melds a familiar name with a brand-new operating system.

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Mr. McCurdy, a 15-year veteran of the circuit, had spent more than a month working with a friend at night and on weekends to modify a brand-new Ski-Doo snowmobile with new cylinders, suspension system, shorter skis and other parts his first new sled in five years.

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The Graedons noted that while the active ingredient of the drug goes off patent, the pharmaceutical chemistry behind the extended delivery system may still be the intellectual property of the brand-name manufacturer.

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And in the current system of nearly 300 top-level domain names, brand owners must monitor, register, and enforce their trademarks across a wide spectrum of online real estate.

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True to the Harman Kardon brand, the integrated system features advanced loudspeakers that deliver a clean, powerful, room-filling sound experience discretely from a bookshelf or tabletop.

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Although value engineered, this system stays true to the brand's audiophile heritage by utilizing durable, high-quality components and the same state-of-the-art horn-loaded technology that has made Klipsch an industry leader for more than 65 years.

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We were creating a new learning system, a new brand, and convincing some of our audience of a new concept, that 0-6 was the right time to start language learning.

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