Disrupters like Apple and Netflix, a video-streaming service, have not killed traditional television, as once feared.

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Record labels have faced dire times ever since disrupters like Napster and other Web sharing sites shook the industry.

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Both started as cheap disrupters, yet even in middle age they leave little space for newer and cheaper disrupters from below.

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Other synthetic hormones and endocrine disrupters common in the modern world seem to have a similar impact, and not just in the womb.

ECONOMIST: Obesity

" But you'll find scant mention of this in their documents, and it appears that their internal budget allocations will treat the "helpers" more generously than the "disrupters.

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It is possible that the long-marginalised scientists of the environmental-health field are right, and that these endocrine disrupters do play a part in explaining the ongoing trends in obesity.

ECONOMIST: Obesity

They are the innovators and disrupters in financial products.

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The group is especially concerned about some chemicals which it says "turn up regularly" and "are known or suspected hormone disrupters which can work on the hormone system at very low levels".

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This is opening the door to disrupters such as Comviq, in Sweden, which has taken 39% of market share away from the incumbent, Telia, by offering half as many handset features and radically simpler pricing plans.

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Their company, Summit Series, has managed in less than three years to put together a handful of conferences that attract thousands of young, influential attendees and star panels of billionaires ( Ted Turner), philanthropists (Wendy Kopp) and disrupters ( Craig Newmark).

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