Everyone thought Richard Stallman was crazy in the 1980s when he tossed out the rules of the conventional software industry and started trying to develop a completely free operating system.
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Mr. MARASH: The Internet is coming up fast and I don't think anybody doubts that in the very foreseeable future, the Internet is going to supplant broadcast cable and satellite television, but for now, if you want to reach eyeballs, as they say, in this industry, conventional television - in the United States at least - is still the way to go.
Conventional wisdom is that the industry will consolidate into five or six megacompanies, starting with Merck, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline.
Conventional wisdom in the pharmaceutical industry says that it takes more than a decade to develop a new drug and convince regulators to approve it.
Every industry has its conventional wisdom, and its not-supposed-tos.
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This conventional view of the dangers of industry concentration is supported by Joseph Bauer, an antitrust expert at the University of Notre Dame who co-wrote a leading textbook on the topic.
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Iran replies that some of the allegations make no sense, that some of the documents are forgeries and that the high-explosive tests and other activities listed by the agency were done to aid civilian industry or else develop conventional weapons.
The "A-Drive" also addresses limitations of the popular, yet expensive, flash-based SSD, as well as the conventional HDD for the consumer and business industry.
The wider point here is that, contrary to all conventional wisdom in the West, Japanese industry has not exactly been standing still in the last two decades.
Hassan has said his goal is to build the foundations for what could one day be an enormous industry in a way a conventional venture-backed startup or academic research group can not.
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"If you're going to do well in solar, the growth markets are going to be the U.S. and China, not Germany, which has been extremely generous in subsidizing an industry that remains uncompetitive versus conventional energy, " said Waterman.
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage has traditionally maintained a higher mix of prime conventional and government loans than the overall industry, especially during the credit bubble which helps explain why Wells Fargo rebounded in a relatively better position vs. competitors than before the crisis.
Indeed, the industry may be moving beyond the conventional mass production upon which its fortunes are based.
In general, hybrid mileage ratings have been more difficult for the industry to get accurate than for conventional powertrains.
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The answer forms an important part of my investment philosophy, and that is that we are entering a new paradigm that marks an end to the conventional boom and bust cycles of the oil industry.
With virtually no conventional fossil fuels of its own and a nuclear industry crippled by the Fukushima disaster, Japan has been keen to develop new sources of energy, however speculative they may appear.
This second rule challenges the conventional wisdom that the safest diversification is into an industry closely related to your own: after several years and a great deal of research, Mr Broad built his second Fortune 500 firm in an entirely unrelated business: financial products for retirement.
The solar industry relies on Government subsidies to compete with conventional sources of power such as coal and natural gas fired plants and decline in support can significantly impact the business of module manufacturers such as First Solar so we will keep an eye on these areas as well.
They are the same risks that our industry has been managing for more than 100 years in the conventional development of oil and natural gas.
Given the power of Japan's entrenched construction industry, and the difficulty of pressing even the mildest of conventional reforms, such a shift of resources would be nearly impossible to pull off in practice.
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Contrary to the claims of know-nothing critics like Bittman, such products are not only environmentally superior to conventional and (especially) organic offerings but would also offer the food industry a proven and practical means of tackling the fungal contamination at its source.
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The conventional wisdom is that a large-scale shift from manufacturing jobs to service industry jobs is inevitable.
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Rather than the conventional structure which focuses on generic business fundamentals, these new MBA degrees contain content tailored to specific industry segments.
The deal marks the first significant combination of a conventional money manager with a private equity investor, and according to Ross, reflects the changing nature of his industry.
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