These companies are flexible, quick to switch designs and marketing patterns to meet the demands of changing fashions around the world.

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Even so, it would seem that full colour, fully flexible displays that can switch fast enough to show video are still some way off.

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Even worse for the domestics, the new foreign plants are flexible--they can quickly switch from making SUVs to minivans or cars if the market changes.

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But a job could also be considered flexible if it offers the ability to switch roles and responsibilities within a company (as with rotating job titles), if it offers options for job-sharing, or if meetings and company events are not considered mandatory to attend, among other things.

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The problem with flexible displays is not so much the screen but the drive electronics that switch the individual polymer pixels on and off.

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