Google decided to make Android an open-source operating system, which meant that third parties could take the code, tweak it for their own needs, and sell competing Android-based products.
Mergers and acquisitions frequently make firms bigger, but often they do not develop them, in the sense of improving their capacity to provide for their own needs and those of their customers.
Those who rationally evaluate their circumstances and make provisions for their own future healthcare needs must not be sacrificed to those who do not.
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Some feel guilty for thinking about their own financial needs at a time when parents could be facing steep medical or long-term-care expenses.
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The report also calls for tenants to be given greater access to shared equity schemes, more flexibility over their individual arrangements and for councils to have increased control over their own housing needs.
By doing this, we can let younger generations opt out of these programs and save for their own retirements and health care needs.
Promising too much to grandchildren, not saving enough for their own possible health-care needs and paying off their grandchildren's loans are some of the mistakes well-meaning grandparents are making, say financial advisers.
The technology, he argues, could enable universities and other institutions to simply skip purchasing textbooks altogether and simply hire people to write textbooks for them, geared specifically to their own needs.
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They have to apply for their own credit card and the cosigned card needs to be canceled.
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It answers girls' needs for a space of their own (one not dominated by boys) for learning vocational skills and for continuing their education.
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And we believe that these freedom principles build stronger communities where people enjoy the dignity of providing for their own families and the joy of willingly meeting the needs of others.
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And Jill -- as she said, that this is especially important when we talk about our National Guard servicemen and women who you all have special responsibility for right in your own states so you know their needs, you know their contributions.
It needs to demand responsibility from the citizens for their own economic situation and be very firm on abuse or exploitation of public support or services.
But the state is equally in a trap because of this looming requirement to provide welfare for people who no longer may be able to fulfil their own welfare needs.
This process is called multiple-listing, and its benefit is that when looking for a patient who needs a liver, hospitals look at their own lists before moving on to the national one.
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The less bright side is that parents are buying ever more fancy clothes, toys and special snacks for their little precious - while paying precious little attention to their own needs and desires.
If our elected officials truly want to modify a system in a creative way, why not at least allow small pilot projects for purely optional premium support programs for seniors who want to find cheaper insurance more tailored to their own needs?
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These personalities place their own needs and wants above those of the organization for which they work.
Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Seniors became prisoners in their own homes and relied on family and friends to transport them for basic needs.
Condemning Western governments for neglecting the needs of developing nations holds little water if Asian countries ignore their own marginalized and disenfranchised citizens.
What America needs from its president is to be acknowledged and affirmed for reinventing their own lives, companies, and communities.
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As attention shifts beyond immediate needs, one of the next steps for surviving spouses should be updating their own estate-planning documents, including their will, power of attorney and health-care proxy.
Women seem to be searching for their own Prince Charming and men seem to be searching for the damsel Princess in distress who needs to be saved (thanks for that Disney).
Italy is currently dependent on costly imports for about 90 percent of its energy needs, putting them at the mercy of not just their own economic uncertainty, but that of many others.
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Reis of the University of Connecticut where findings suggest women consider it selfish to pursue their own creative talents, and those women who are creative or productive feel guilty for not putting the needs of their families first.
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It's not unusual for mobile-device makers, most notably Amazon with its Kindle Fire tablets, to tweak the system to suit their own needs.
Many students are ill prepared for the labor market, whether by fault of their own or by colleges and universities that are out of sync with the needs of a skilled work force.
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