In the past 18 months, Microsoft has quietly conceded most of Mr Ellison's points, with one glaring exception.
Goodreads has quietly grown into one of the most prolific social networks for book readers.
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Already he has quietly cancelled a promise to build an oil refinery in Nicaragua.
In the background of this debate, a competing energy resource play has quietly built momentum.
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It has quietly sold several of its smaller holdings in the past couple of years.
Here we have a company that has quietly become a powerhouse in online imaging.
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And it makes me think that, on some level, BMW's M Division has quietly realigned its philosophy.
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Between these three mundane business lines, Coinstar has quietly been minting money going on twenty years now.
Founded just five years ago, the Dallas company has quietly amassed 1.3 million paying patients (not including dependents).
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And she has quietly urged President Obama to toughen his position on regulation.
The pope has quietly replaced the archbishop who was in charge of preparations.
Ford's stock, while it's worth half what is was five years ago, has quietly crept up 27% since last June.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Intel has quietly assembled a new business unit focused on netbooks and tablet computers.
Robertson sits atop the largest private hoard in the nation--21 billion tons of reserves he has quietly amassed over three decades.
Robertson sits atop the largest private hoard in the nation--21 billion tonnes of reserves he has quietly amassed over three decades.
An evolution in the marketplace of talent has quietly but irrevocably changed how people look for work and how companies find workers.
Tyler Perry -- Being passed over by Hollywood's leading studios hasn't deterred Perry, who has quietly turned himself into a powerful brand.
Mr. Emanuel's firm, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, has quietly agreed to pay the owner of an office building in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The episode has renewed a debate that has quietly continued since the 2001 attacks over the proper balance between security and privacy.
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Thailand and Australia hold regular exercises with the United States, which has quietly upgraded its ties with the Indonesian armed forces too.
Could the explanation be that Macedonia has quietly cut a deal with Slobodan Milosevic to keep most Kosovars away from its borders?
For lefties there is Vantage Motorworks in Miami, an establishment that has quietly defined the high-end market in the U.S. for 35 years.
This firm has quietly executed a growth strategy that uses acquisitions and internally developed modules to widen the concentric circles of logistics automation.
Furthermore, Minneapolis Fed chief Narayana Kocherlakota, a former dissenter, has quietly moved to a more dovish stance, adding further support for the Chairman.
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Juan-Miguel Villar Mir, an 82-year-old former finance minister of Spain, has quietly been building a global engineering and construction empire for decades.
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Lehman (nyse: LEH - news - people ) has quietly put together what it calls a "productivity and process improvement" group.
Billy Corgan, Chicago restaurateur and frontman for the rock group Smashing Pumpkins, has quietly won a decision in a battle over that very question.
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As one of the most multicultural societies on earth, Australia enjoys excellent race relations, and Mr Howard has quietly raised immigration to impressive levels.
Since Junichiro Koizumi's election as prime minister in 2001, the world's second-biggest economy has quietly managed to begin pulling itself back to life.
And Mr Cameron has quietly planted new seeds by appointing several promising members of the 2010 intake of Tory MPs to junior ministerial office.
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