For example, as the vice president of marketing for a major cable television operator, my marketing plan relied on our engineering division making major upgrades to our cable systems.

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The famed Hearst Castle, for example, may be better maintained by an outside operator such as the Getty Museum, the report suggested.

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China Mobile, for example, is the world's largest mobile operator, but its competition is limited, by ministerial decree, to just a few other domestic rivals.

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Sprint ( S), for example, would become the third largest nationwide network operator, but a distant third and might become an attractive buy for Verizon, which would gain more spectrum, more cell sites and bragging rights as the largest U.S. network operator once again.

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Train operator C2C, for example, operates the line from London to Shoeburyness, in Essex.

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While some people might not immediately associate blue-collar occupations with higher-level formal education, some of these managers and supervisors must have extensive knowledge of business or sciences to perform the tasks of, for example, power plant operator or agricultural manager.

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It was Mr Sullivan, for example, who had the idea of taking over MCI, a much bigger long-distance operator, in 1997.

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In Chicago, for example, the call will go over a 10-digit phone number, but it'll show up to the operator exactly the same way it would in New York.

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