They have little alternative, if they wish to avoid becoming a collection of commodity businesses.

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Could it eventually mean that banks would be poorer and have little alternative but to up sticks and move abroad, with those who remain unable to lend to companies anyway?

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The quality of Nigerian crude means that IOCs have little alternative but to continue to operate in the country, where competition has increased in recent years with the entry of IOCs from China, India and South Korea.

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They may have seen little alternative, but also recognise that President Obama gets some kudos for being the first president to support gay marriage.

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Unfortunately for Apple and for consumers, acquiring rights for traditional broadcast and cable network content outside of the current bundled model is virtually impossible because the content is owned by a relatively small group of companies that have little interest in alternative models for their most valuable content.

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But Mr Davies's lifestyle seems to have been just a little too alternative.

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In the long run, however, Krishnamurthy argues that the companies controlling the Internet have little choice about adopting an alternative such as P4P.

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But the Conservatives have had little to offer as an alternative.

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Obvious questions like how big the economy will be in 2065 or what it would cost to maintain the current air fleet through that year are left unanswered, so policymakers and legislators have little basis for comparing F-35 support costs with available resources or alternative modernization strategies.

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Trends toward increased allocations to alternative assets have created a danger that institutions may actually be spending too little on endowment oversight, rather than too much, since there is a wide dispersion on manager returns, and added resources are required for proper due diligence and oversight of these investments.

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