Rice says it would be most beneficial to have a "360 degree network" of high performers, meaning surrounding oneself with successful people who are more senior than you, at your peer level and working beneath you.

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Even under a good scenario where you get federal financing, and you see a merger between two of the three entities and a preservation of a lot of models and a preservation of the design staffs to some degree, and a preservation of some of the dealer network.

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It is also important to note that like all wireless services, the more customers using wireless broadband within a cell or cell sector (cell sites are normally divided into three equal sectors of 120-degree coverage each), the slower the network will appear to those using it.

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Juniper's network infrastructure will enable OnLive to scale to this degree of ubiquity while maintaining the absolutely no-compromise performance that video games demand.

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You see it, to a degree, in the purported aims of Google (see related story, "High Network Individual") and in the fuss that the Body Shop made in its early days about not selling cosmetics tested on animals.

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Yale School of Management is expanding its global outreach, creating a far-reaching and extensive network of international business schools to share curricula, exchange faculty and feed into a new degree program, which will be based at Yale.

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The biggest is the degree of competition in the market, which governments have generally encouraged by allowing the construction of rival infrastructure to the telephone network, usually in the form of cable networks.

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