And of course, the upshot of all this is anything but abstract: doctors are left ignorant about the drugs they are prescribing, and which will make their patients sick or get well, or even live or die.
As any entrepreneur or VC will tell you, start-ups live or die by the talent they can attract.
But focussing on Vermont and New Hampshire, with dramatically different approaches to tax, there's little sign of Vermont losing business or people to its New England neighbour (motto, 'live free or die').
Taxes you might think live or die according to whether they raise revenue for the Exchequer.
They top our list of health experts who may decide whether you live or die.
This may be dangerous, for the euro must ultimately live or die according to popular support.
He is buying companies that very much live or die with cyclical economic activity.
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The men sat in the sun for hours, powerless and unsure if they would live or die.
As an early start-up, you live or die based on that first product.
"We don't want to live or die by one spokesperson, " says Jack C.
They will look for any alternative, any way out, any excuse not to live or die in a single battle.
This is where Disney Infinity will live or die, making a strong connection between the toy figures and the game.
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Ethanol will live or die with its ability to bridge that gap.
"Depending on how brave she is, she will live or die, " says Sergio Jr, before adding optimistically: "So far, she's doing well".
Start-ups live or die by the quality of people they can hire.
The channel creators coming from broadcast and cable television relish the fact that their YouTube work won't live or die on traditional Nielsen ratings.
Professional services firms live or die by their ability to attract, hire, retain, and motivate exceptional employees and indeed freelancers and subcontractors as well.
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The idea alarms many China-based businesses, which live or die based on whether they get the fastest, most accurate financial data and expert analysis.
For a given set of patients, how many live or die?
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And the companies that make them can live or die by the game's success - it was the lukewarm reception to Realtime's last game, All Points Bulletin, that finally tipped it into administration.
Sony concluded that the best way to promote the adoption of its technologies was to get into the content business, since content owners have a big influence over which technology standards live or die.
In much the same way that consumers tend to reduce the number of cards in their physical wallets down to the key brands that deliver them the most value, mobile wallets will live or die on the utility they provide.
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's 20th Century Fox will soon roll out Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Live Free or Die Hard.
Live Free or Die Hard on the Apple TV to HD VOD and witnessed exactly what we'd suspected: cable did look worse.
's (nyse: NWS - news - people ) 20th Century Fox will soon roll out Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Live Free or Die Hard.
It is not a sacrifice to die a free man rather than live as a slave or live in terror.
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