Regulators are looking into whether exchanges, in a rush to gain the business of high-frequency firms, have provided advantages to some sophisticated trading firms that allow them to trade profitably at the expense of other investors, according to people familiar with the continuing probes.
You're never going to have 100% assurance, but you want to have advantages apparent that you have a good chance of success, before you launch any kind of ground operations.
Vardenafil will probably be late to market, and when it gets there it may not have significant enough advantages to get a leg up on its competition.
Hence, it is expected to have cost advantages over other producers in the log-run as other producers will have to move to higher cost reserves.
There would have been two main advantages to having such large blooms, Professor Davis told the BBC News website.
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Indeed, youth seems to have advantages in innovation: everything is possible, knowledge is fresh, obligations are few and reputation is not at risk.
All of the hardware makers, Google perhaps less than the others because it is only nominally a hardware maker, have sought to use software to create hardware advantages.
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By assuming the mythical even playing field at the beginning, libertarianism ignores the disadvantages some have to climb out of or the advantages others enjoy to get those raw materials in the first place.
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But it is an ambiguous talent for him to have, because there are few apparent strategic advantages to seeing his life as lucidly as he does.
Will the advantages incumbents have be enough to fend them off?
Along the way, Li, 47, has defied the odds in a country where government-owned enterprises have distinct advantages when it comes to raising capital or winning approval for expansion.
The six big producers of network servers -- IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Digital and Dell -- have caught on to the advantages, and Quantum is struggling to meet their demand.
The strategy there is much like the one for Paxil: A newer formulation of Augmentin seems to have some advantages over the old standby but is much more expensive than the generic.
Prime Minister MIKHAIL FRADKOV (Russia): (Through translator) We're trying to create a fair playing field for business in this country, but that's not always accepted by those who wish to have certain advantages and privileges.
The Jewish custom of separating milk and meat -- not eating the two at the same meal and, for the most strict adherents, having separate plates and utensils for each -- does not appear to have dietary advantages or disadvantages, experts say.
They have failed to integrate their enlarged operations enough to take full advantages of economies of scale and of scope.
The new multinationals have some distinct advantages in their sprint to the fore of global business.
Many famous tax evaders have used offshore banks to their advantages.
To tap into the advantages of deeper meaning analysis, searchers will have to offer up more detailed descriptions, a process he compares to having a conversation with a human being.
Polymer solar cells have attracted great attention due to their advantages over competing solar cell technologies.
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My own kids were raised with long-distance grandparents, and there is little comparison to the advantages we have now.
The right-sized reactors are expected to operate at high efficiencies and to have built-in advantages, ultimately giving those investments a respectable return.
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But there are real advantages to using medicines that have been in use for several years, because it can take that long for serious safety side effects to show up.
One sociologist called it "cultural displacement" -- the fear that your children will grow up in a world different than the one you grew up in, with fewer advantages, where they will have to work harder for what they accomplish.
Both have every right to press home their commercial advantages, as indeed has America.
For example, lithium-ion batteries have great advantages over traditional batteries when it comes to consumer electronics.
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More recently, exchange traded funds have emerged to challenge index funds with some advantages, particularly in cost.
However, planners will have to weigh the cost-saving advantages of a family-of-systems approach against the danger that vital datalinks might be jammed by future adversaries.
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Foxconn's cost advantages from scale have waned as it works to improve factory conditions after a spate of high-profile worker suicides and accidents in recent years.
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"They're usually more expensive to create and they have fewer tax advantages, " says Michel.
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