The companies who figure out how to capture business value from all that digital exhaust will surely have a competitive advantage in a global economy increasingly driven by data and pervasive computing.
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And even if a country were the most efficient in every industry, giving it an absolute advantage in everything, it could not have a comparative advantage in everything.
Democratic companies will continue to have a competitive advantage in the future, and we will eventually get to a place where employees demand it.
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Such performance-based exams have a big advantage over multiple choice: They go beyond whether students can regurgitate a set of facts on a certain day to assess their know-how.
Users with Verizon FiOS or Comcast cable television have a particular advantage, since the majority of channels from these providers are sent with a 'copy freely' flag.
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They know the Indiana Pacers have a size advantage, realize that Carmelo Anthony is going to get beat up banging against a bulkier body, and understand that a change to a lineup with a conventional power forward may become necessary.
Anyone can receive a blessing from the temple elephant, Lakshmi. (After you give her a 100-rupee note, she whacks you gratefully on the head.) But train passengers have a special advantage: You go back at night to Hampi's central Vittala Temple complex, a compound of intricately sculpted halls with rows of pillars and the central stone chariot that gives the train its name.
Console developers have a HUGE advantage by using less powerful hardware and getting the same or close to the same results that a high end pc can achieve in most cases because developers can use up every bit of power the console has..unlike pc devs can do.
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Service providers and vendors that support multiple types of clouds have a competitive advantage here.
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But sub-20-inch desktop CRTs will still have a price advantage over microdisplays, he adds.
This industry is ripe for change, and early adopters will have a clear advantage.
The number of entrepreneurs whose businesses actually have a competitive advantage is probably even lower.
In labour-intensive manufacturing, however, Chinese workers, with their better elementary education, have a big advantage.
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Does Iowa have a distinct advantage over other states in shaping the nation's energy policy?
RECs have a big advantage, because they have access to cheap money and pay few taxes.
It is thought those engines will have a power advantage compared to the new units.
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Those with a gift for learning languages are bound to have a big advantage.
The Democrats have a big advantage in 19 states, concentrated on the two coasts.
Firms that can extract meaning from this digital pile will have a big advantage.
Cities today have a productivity advantage for different reasons, to do with ideas rather than costs.
On the other hand, cities still have a density advantage that will make autonomous vehicles more economical.
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Indeed, the poll appears to have a partisan advantage for Democrats of about 10 percent or more.
In addition to her attraction to risky assignments, Zanna says she thinks women have a natural advantage.
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In that case, no country would have a comparative advantage, and hence there would be no trade.
Early-stage companies have a second advantage over more established ones: they can ask for forgiveness instead of permission.
In a global competition for viewers and buyers of shirts (jerseys), the EPL teams have a huge advantage.
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Lawsuits are only one of the extreme actions parents have taken whose children do not have a sibling advantage.
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"Roche should have a marketing advantage for this 30% of patients, " Evans writes.
Neither side seems to have a clear advantage in terms of public opinion.
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But the Knicks still have a big advantage as they try for their first playoff series win in 13 years.
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