Put the two together and you have a recipe for ever-longer business cards: vice-president for photocopiers Asia-Pacific, for example.
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The creation of ever-longer stretches of man-made DNA is allowing researchers to make new strides in understanding how multiple genes work together.
"We've made the point to our Russian colleagues that we all face a threat from states like Iran that continue to pursue missiles of ever-longer range, " she said.
Queues for the basics of life - bread and fuel - grow ever longer.
Yet the cars' failings in qualifying have caused the youngest-ever Formula 1 champion to take a longer-term view on how McLaren should approach their planning from now on this season.
That's a historic shift, and is just one of many signals that the personal computer is no longer dominant in the ever-shifting world of consumer technology.
Unlike the Fed, which has engaged in a wide-ranging Quantitative Easing exercise aimed at reducing longer-term interest rates, the ECB has only ever engaged in bond purchases in the most grudging way possible and currently has no active bond purchase program.
The Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust said the 19th Century building was no longer suitable for the "ever-expanding and developing service".
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And the importance of teaching for Automaticity becomes more important than ever, when even instant-recall is no longer enough to help our children to get ahead.
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Now Paramount's retooled plants churn out wrappers that can keep chocolate bars fresh for months longer than paper wrappers ever did--on store shelves from balmy Thailand to chilly Alaska.
He said StarTek was used by many games makers because now so many titles had a shelf life longer than ever thanks to multi-player gaming and the appearance of tools that let fans create their own levels.
In Hollywood's ever-escalating luxury hotel arms race, guests no longer have to settle for standard room service, unceremoniously prepared by hotel staff from a boilerplate menu.
The most consistent longer-term pattern I have ever seen is that since at least 1918 the stock market has experienced a substantial rally from the low in the 2nd year of every presidential administration to the high in the following year.
Companies establish matrix-management systems to deal with globalisation, appoint task-forces to examine new technologies, and add ever longer meetings until employees' brains try to gnaw their way out of their skulls.
Since ignorance is no longer exculpatory, the leadership burden must now include ever-increasing vigilance in hitherto unmonitored nooks and crannies of the corporate enterprise.
Thing is, for us (and likely many of you), they last far longer than our clinically-diagnosed Gadget Attention Deficit Disorder would ever tolerate -- but for your dad, your sister, your college buddy with the hand-me-down ZEOS Pantera running Windows 95, or anyone weary of re-upping a two-year commitment, a handset can easily become a serious long-term investment.
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The biggest supply-side obstacle to future growth may no longer be (if it ever was) excessive regulation or inflexible labour markets, but a corporate culture that finds it easy to tolerate low returns and difficult to tolerate outright failure.
Though profitable as ever, Microsoft has warned it will slip to single-digit growth, and it no longer crackles with the same manic energy.
Silicon Valley may continue to reap riches from the periodic technology gold rush , but in the longer term, tech growth will continue its long-term dispersion to ever more parts of the country.
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Bernanke has been in the hot seat ever since the Fed unleashed its repeated programs of quantitative easing (QE), or longer-term asset purchases.
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As for whether the longer A380 variant--known as the A380-900--will ever come to light, that may depend on just how much interest there is from other airlines.
Whether by necessity or choice, U.S. motorists are holding onto their cars for longer than ever, with the age of the average vehicle on the road at a record-high 10.8 years, according to the research company R.
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