What looks less likely is a convergence to 5.5% any time soon.
The key to making it to the point of convergence is to set firm work boundaries.
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The much greater security needs of enterprise customers over consumers are likely to reverse at least part of the convergence trend to one smart phone per person.
In this simple mnemonic example, the clench phase corresponds to convergence and the release to divergence.
Intensifying competition should lead not just to price convergence but also to a round of creative destruction.
Specifically, the traditional telecommunications companies, such as Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola, seemed to resist convergence and adhere to the concept that voice is the killer app.
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To ready Dial M for Murder for this current release, MPI's work included a 4K scan of the original camera negative, and a full restoration of the two "eyes, " as well as convergence fixes to ensure perfect alignment.
However, whether quarterly census continues to convergence on the very optimistic numbers from the household series remains to be seen.
TiVo and Replay Networks "offer a really logical progression to convergence because they take a lot of computer technology and apply it to television in a manner that is very easy for the consumer to understand, " Baker said.
Apple is going down the path to make the product line consistent in functionality, which also plays into the convergence of smartphones to tablets.
Mr Holtham welcomed the promise to "reconsider convergence under the Barnett formula" and to take steps to ensure that Wales was not "disproportionately disadvantaged" in future.
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He thinks that inflation convergence is something to be expected after adopting the euro, not before.
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The elections saw Convergence lose ground to the left-wing ERC party, which also supports independence but opposes Mr Mas's spending cuts.
So if the tests boil down to convergence, where stands Britain?
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Look at the reasons for the narrowing of the gap between British and continental inflation and interest rates, and this convergence turns out to be more apparent than real.
They believe that if the eurozone signs up to debt limits, to budget discipline through automatic sanctions, to budgetary convergence etc then that could pave the way for the ECB "to play its full role", as the French finance minister said at the weekend.
The APEC conference that we're hosting here is going to have some very concrete deliverables around issues like regulatory convergence, which permits countries to all think about whether our regulations are as efficient, as effective as they can be, or where are they standing in the way of smart trade.
To them, convergence with Europe is not about values but interests, which include a visa-free regime and access to property, bank accounts, yachts for the elite and protection from Russia.
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That is leading to a convergence between different categories of devices that could have wide ramifications across the technology industry.
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But things are looking up, thanks to the convergence of two forces.
Eventually this will lead to a convergence in global natural gas prices and have very positive long-term implications for the U.S. economy.
But things did not work out that way in foreign affairs, and other sorts of convergence may be coming to an end, too.
Even if the government decides against shadowing the euro and can get away with doing so, it still needs to take other active steps to promote convergence.
He remains the keeper of the five tests and he alone will judge how much progress is made towards reducing those impediments to structural convergence he has identified.
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"They all want to buy convergence, " Holmes notes of investors.
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a weekly column that covers everything related to digital convergence, the connected home, and all those other multimedia buzzwords that marketers are tossing out these days.
However, it also suggests that such convergence can be expected to take place over many decades and, in the short run, enhanced rural-urban migration might even widen the income divide between the countryside and cities.
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