In fact, the nation is, on balance, well served by the flexibility and optimization made possible by having dedicated air arms in each service.

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"But the main story is the relatively mundane but terribly important activity in electronic procurement and supply-chain optimization" made possible by the Net.

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However, Intel has to educate developers away from that behavior, or at least towards multi-architecture optimization, and the only way it does that is by pushing lots of Intel-equipped devices into the hands of users.

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What is a winning idea in this world of real-time optimization, where the idea is never static, but constantly shifting by design?

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Each company now competes hard to own the insight metrics around cross-media ad optimization, but they face skilled competitors and little chance of earning the same margins as produced by their currency business.

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Some portion of the 40 basis points charged by Vanguard for managed accounts is paid to a firm named Financial Engines for independent portfolio optimization.

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