The gain emphasizes just how strong the free shipping strategy has been for online retailers this year.
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But an energy strategy that focuses only on drilling and not on an energy strategy that will free ourselves from our dependence on foreign oil, that's a losing strategy.
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Any strategy-free CEO can do those sorts of things to confuse investors and send financial analysts chasing their tails updating spreadsheets.
To promote their show Camelot, they created a free-to-play strategy game on Facebook.
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Wicoms is hoping that a strategy to offer free Skype WiFi in Ireland and the UK will reverse that neglect.
We have to say that offering additional programming above and beyond what is currently free is a pretty good strategy, but the other one we'd like to see is a premium option to view content commercial free -- no word on if any of the paid content will still have commercials.
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That, it is hoped, would free board members to focus more on grand strategy than on day-to-day operations.
Second, it launched a shrewd strategy of promotions (discounts and free shipping) that allowed the company to attain economies of scale.
That left NATO free to concentrate on shaping a new fighting strategy.
But in as context-free an environment, when it came to grand strategy, these distinctions were easy to lose.
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Trion Worlds is announcing that its strategy game End of Nations will be free to play, as many social games like Zynga are.
For a modest amount of equity or shares, investors becoming shareholders will receive free trading stock, liquidity and a clear exit strategy .
"It takes fewer items in a consumer's basket to get them over that free-shipping threshold, " said Jay Henderson, strategy director for IBM Smarter Commerce.
Google's strategy for years was to allow manufacturers to use its free Android operating software, helping them compete with Apple Inc. gadgets and ensuring that its search engine would be built into the devices.
From the private sector, Steve Corneli, senior vice president for sustainability, strategy and policy for NRG Energy, attempted to blend free-market principles with an unquestioning belief in claims by climate-change advocates that have yet to be backed up with conclusive proof.
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Free can help you or hurt you, and you must have a strategy to manage it.
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Environment committee chairperson Cathal Boylan called for a rural transport strategy combined with random breath tests, and expressed support for free soft drinks for designated drivers.
Within its Think Big Blueprint, O2's 3 year sustainability strategy, the company has pledged to supply phones charger-free by 2015 to cut down on the huge environmental waste that spare and redundant chargers create.
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Buttler says free-to-play is the right model for this real-time strategy tame.
Critical to the Colombian strategy is approval by the U.S. Congress of the pending free trade agreement.
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At the same time she noted free trade agreements with Panama and Colombia as the beginnings of a Latin American trade strategy.
Lord Ramsbotham argued that because no-one in the prison service was responsible and accountable for young people, there was no overall strategy aimed at challenging their criminal attitudes and behaviour or preparing them for a future free of offending.
They feel the union is angling for the strategy employed by the NFLPA in the 1992-93 under the late Gene Upshaw , a strategy that led to many gains for NFL player including, for the first time, free agency.
McDerment's online strategy starts with his Web site, which features a custom-made forum that runs on free, open-source software called PunBB.
This strategy will take over three years to fully implement due to current limitations on contributions to the tax free Roth accounts.
Microsoft's New Year's buyout of the most popular free E-mail provider, HotMail, is another sure sign that the Redmond giant is taking its portal strategy very seriously indeed.
Local emission-free electric vehicles such as the new B-Class Electric Drive are a major part of the Mercedes-Benz strategy for sustainable mobility.
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