The bottom line here: Microsoft has put out half a product for the full price.
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So let's do the postmortem and guess what contributed to the low sales more: high prices, a half baked product or ads featuring a hairy-legged TV and Kevin Bacon?
Hicks has streamlined operations, minimized markdowns, installed a more disciplined allocations system to determine which stores get how many of what shoes and increased vendor exclusivity (half of product styles and colors are sold only at Foot Locker).
Salty snacks and breakfast solutions together represented more than half of new food product dollars.
Today, investment accounts for an astounding half of gross domestic product, perhaps more.
Tight controls like this have kept medical costs in Japan at 7% of gross domestic product, half the U.S. level.
The rest are privately held, and these businesses generate a majority of new jobs and more than half of Gross Domestic Product.
Assuming no further macroeconomic deterioration, we expect that bookings and revenue will bottom out in Q1 2012 and lead to a strong second half as many new product design wins ramp into production.
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In Germany, where half the gross domestic product comes from exporting companies such as Siemens, chemical makers like BASF or carmakers like Volkswagen and Porsche, hard-to-find skilled workers with training and certain qualifications are valued over temporary staff.
He warned that "haste may result in us having a half-baked and rushed product".
We are excited to offer the Power Max, as it accomplishes this objective: a superior product at nearly half the price of the current products on the market.
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Of their 25 employees, half currently work directly with product.
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Also, China, which accounts for about half the Brics gross domestic product, wants to have higher voting rights if it contributes more to the fund than its partners, the officials said.
Trials carried out by L'Oreal showed the average improvement was not noticeable to the user, and that half of those using the product had not registered the improvement claimed, the ASA said.
Since many of the people who work on the Stripe product are users of it (half of them had already used Stripe before they joined the company), they have a good feel for what product improvements might be useful or important.
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And the Croatian brand has a tradition dating back centuries, whereas Prosecco is a product of the latter half of the 20th century.
George Gilder rightly claims that the most consequential product in the second half of the 20th century, ahead of jet aircraft, is the microprocessor.
Back home, the average family's wealth soared 45 percent in half a decade and gross domestic product rose at around 5 percent a year.
While such phones comprise the high end of Samsung's product lineup, about half of its smartphone sales are less powerful and less expensive models.
Dietzen anticipates XtremIO will introduce its product by the second half of 2013 so he wants to make sure that Pure Storage can maintain its lead.
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The government has slashed expenditure to try to bring its annual deficit for 2006 down to the three and a half percent maximum of gross national product permitted under European Union rules.
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Additionally Intel has mentioned that it plans to refresh its entire Xeon product line in first half of 2011, which could lead to more advanced and higher priced server microprocessors being introduced.
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Although Sony Ericsson is planning to release its glitzy Idou phone--which features a headline-grabbing 12-megapixel camera--in the second half of this year, the product is unlikely to arrive until late this year.
Their presence in Microsoft, which has about 750 million users worldwide (only about half of those pay for the product, in case you were wondering about the world's most pirated application), though, makes them part of our way of life.
In a typical Gome store, half the floorspace is dedicated to special product displays.
The RF360 chip is expected to be OEM product launches in the second half of the year.
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He expected 2006 to be a tough year for Nissan because of a new product drought in the first half of the year.
The deficit will be 5.3 percent of gross domestic product this year, nearly half the 10.1 percent of GDP in 2009.
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He fears them because, though numerically insignificant, they are a powerful economic force: farming and related industries have in the past accounted for more than half of Zimbabwe's gross domestic product.
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