The dominant model, in which the bond issuer pays the rater directly, encouraged cosiness between the two.
But none of these became the dominant model for music creation and distribution, and they probably never will, even as music publishers the world over are consuming themselves.
"The dominant model of science is one of aggressive individual or lab-based competition to break new ground and get the most convincing arguments supported by evidence, " he told me.
Today, the dominant model for platforms like Facebook or Klout is to equate reputation with influence, based on how many friends I have, or how often other users like or share information I post.
The company was expanding, building a newer and better streaming library that many new customers were happy to pay for, and meanwhile was preparing for the eventual shift toward streaming-only as the dominant model for the future of the company.
It might be that Groupon will successfully follow the Amazon model and wisely invest to build a dominant, almost unassailable operating model.
"In the 18th Century, that model of religious tolerance based on a state with diverse cultures, but no single dominant religion, became a model for the founding fathers, " said Mr Raby.
BBC: Cyrus Cylinder: How a Persian monarch inspired Jefferson
What it does is emphasize that turning the clinical card as cheaply as possible is the dominant factor in the model.
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In fact a dominant innovation impetus in the USA, and a model for startup culture, is the incessant race to create more and better sales and marketing channels.
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Moreover, Google will find it difficult to defend that it has not been deceptive with consumers in publicly representing Google as user-aligned, unconflicted and unbiased, when the facts powerfully show Google has an advertiser-aligned business model, has serious undisclosed conflicts and biases its dominant search business by self-dealing Google content top rankings while burying the rankings of some competitors.
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But BD has many of the characteristics of companies Buffett likes to invest in: well-regarded management, entrenched and dominant position in many of its markets, and leverage in its business model that allows it to gain efficiencies and lift profits faster than sales rise.
In former West Germany the traditional family model of the male breadwinner with a home-oriented wife was still dominant.
Although a source of inspiration for European and American philosophers, the state model created by Cyrus, based on diverse cultures, but no single dominant religion, was only picked up on in the 18th Century United States.
BBC: Cyrus Cylinder: How a Persian monarch inspired Jefferson
After figuring out what the dominant risk factors were among the participants who developed breast cancer, scientists designed a prediction model, now called the Gail model.
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