By giving operating system control to Microsoft, Nokia stands to lose the opportunity to differentiate its smartphones from the competition, and risks making its smartphones a commodity.
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Year after year, Gallup finds that American parents think very highly of their own schools, while giving the school system as a whole a failing grade.
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Coeliac UK, which represents sufferers, worries that the hidden costs of prescriptions (which patients pay for, unless they have other conditions which qualify them for free scripts) is giving the whole system a bad name.
The Scottish government has said the ability to list patients as "socially unavailable", was replaced in October by a new system giving patients more flexibility to agree when they want to be treated.
An old-established two-party system is giving way to a far more polarising class divide.
The downfall of any content system is giving the user too many choices that are overwhelming.
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Torre is against giving managers a challenge system, as NFL coaches have, but says opinion is split.
Alternately, the U.S. could adopt the West German system of giving shareholders a credit for corporate taxes paid on dividends.
The Internet has challenged that system by giving individuals the same power.
Solicitors have also described how some offenders exploit the system by giving false addresses and said there was no proper confirmation of their identity.
This year, Heineken is pushing samples of its new Extra Cold draught system by giving tastes to passers-by at its Red Star Cafe on the stadium grounds.
Apple, on the other hand, has a very closed operating system, giving its developers far less leeway in exchange for what the company says is a smoother, better-developed user experience.
Microsoft Dynamics empowers Australian Reef Pilots by putting in place a robust safety management system, giving its employees access to almost real-time information on their reef pilots and the ships in their charge.
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Obama and his party became mired in reshaping our health care system, giving Republicans an opening to portray Democrats as both big spenders and bunglers who can't get anything done even with huge congressional majorities.
But there is a question about public trust and confidence because one particular MP, Derek Conway, was you know clearly abusing the system and giving money to his family, when they weren't working hard for it and that was an abuse of public funds.
Game Center will be another adaptation coming from the mobile iOS system, giving gamers a central place to find games and opponents -- a stab by Apple at gaining relevance in a desktop gaming space that is still dominated by Microsoft with its Xbox Live network.
Knabb has reluctantly joined a group of companies and individuals who are contending that loopholes in the financial system are giving manipulators wide latitude with which to operate, under the not so watchful eye of regulators and largely outside the knowledge of small-time investors, who won't realize what hit them until it's too late.
Of course, while giving up national control over the banking system will be more acceptable for voters than giving up the right to set fiscal policy, national governments will still find this hard to swallow.
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Maggie Mellon, head of public policy for NCH Scotland, also called for a new system for children giving evidence in court.
Former CEO Lawrence Bossidy, who generally shunned the capital's political circuit, sometimes expressed outright disdain for politicians and the entire system of political giving.
Carlos Larrain, head of the conservative National Renewal party, said a Bachelet candidacy "will be healthy for the system" by giving voters a choice between the social welfare policies of her previous term and those of Pinera's right-of-center government.
Maidstone Borough Council claims the previous points-based system encouraged deprivation by giving priority to those on benefits.
The game is also class-free, giving players a more open progression system which avoids those pre-game set-in-stone permanent decisions.
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His private members' bill, which needs government support to have any hope of reaching the statute books, aims at giving more flexibility to the annuities system.
Finally, these reforms hold Wall Street accountable by giving shareholders new power in the financial system.
Bitcoin uses a clever scheme to maintain a fully decentralized transaction register, preventing double-spending without giving anyone de facto control over the system.
Hopefully it's going to be about going out and fronting up and giving South Africa a shock to the system after the shock to ours.
And building a very basic development tool might encourage more people to eventually learn how to program Objective-C, or whatever iPhone apps are coded with in the future, giving the iPhone platform a stronger farm system.
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