Powers and Thomas routinely check out menus from restaurants ranging from the high end to the low end, looking for the key words: wild striped bass.
With emerging markets expected to see the highest growth rates in smartphone adoption in the coming years, Qualcomm is looking to extend its dominance at the high-end to the entry-level smartphone market as well.
The American Medical Association and consumer groups have joined the Obama administration in asking the high court to end the accords.
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That was followed by a similar summer rally that carried the market all the way back to the April high by the end of August.
The 4S had to be dual-core to keep up with the high end of the phone market, and to make the rest of the stand-out benefits on show - the new, embedded Siri and gaming - possible.
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"With the installed base of Android and Tegra already at critical mass, developers looking to have their games stand out have the promise of financial reward to invest in high-end content, not to mention the hardware processing that can power next-generation games, " Iida said.
"Despite tough competition in stores and courtrooms, Samsung continued to deliver numerous hit models, from the high-end Galaxy Note2 phablet to the mass-market Galaxy Y, " wrote Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics, in a press release.
Manufacturing remains an important component of the economy (at least 30%), and will continue to be so at the high end of the value chain, as companies continue to be drawn to the ease and efficiency of doing business in the city, a claim that few in the region or across the world can boast.
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And its handset range, which spans the cost spectrum from very high-end to the very low, is considered the broadest of any carrier.
Ever bargain-savvy, many students slip into the free, open-to-the-public previews of high-end contemporary art sales to take in works like the Phillips de Pury collection even if they are likely not yet in a position to purchase.
Dell uses a mix of its own 7, 000 service employees and others under contract, leaving the high-end consulting to the likes of EDS. "Break-fix has been derided as Tinkertoy services, but there's a lot of money to be made there, " says Rollins.
Several luxury developers have caught on to the prefab trend and applied it to the high-end market.
In addition to eventually adding more functionality and a consumer-facing label to the Higg Index, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition plans to add more high-end fashion companies to its membership roster in the near future, which would differentiate it from virtually every other sustainability initiative in the apparel industry.
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In the latest in a series of cautionary comments from the Street, Bernstein Research analyst Pierre Ferragu asserted in a research note this morning that Q3 results are likely to be toward the high end of guidance, thanks in part to a solid debut for the BlackBerry Torch.
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In the case of anticipated newcomers who might not have the capital to purchase the high-end product, Ross said the Design Centre will make an investment in their first collection by providing a couple of pelts.
To succeed in what has become a wildly competitive industry, handset vendors like RIM need to target the high or low end of the market, Gillis writes in a Sept. 16 note to investors.
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Besides a clear disagreement with West Coast rapper Kreayshawn, Harry Winston looks to have decided to ditch the glam-world of high-end jewelry retail and switch to the down-and-dirty realm of the diamond mine.
After all, residential real estate prices in October for the 100 cities that make up the China Real Estate Index range from RMB 25, 747 per square meter in Shenzhen at the high end, to RMB 3, 120 per square meter in Hengshui at the low end.
His view is that Apple and Samsung will continue to dominate the high end of the handset market, but he cautions that growth in that segment is likely to slow to the 10%-15% range, down from the 50%-100% range.
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"Apple's modus operandi to date has been to cream the high-end off each market, but as the company's grown it may now need to target more of the mainstream, " analysts at Evercore Partners said.
Meanwhile, the Pentiums rank a touch higher with 3MB of L3 cache, HD graphics and processors that clock at 2.5GHz on the low end to 3.2GHz on the high end.
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One thing left for him to do: fix the high-end disk drive business, where the company used to think it was going to make all of its money.
At the end of the day, your sound is all coming from one spot, so directionality isn't going to quite match a for-realsie surround sound setup, and the system we listened to was a little sharp in the high end, but it's certainly a unique and appealing offering from Mitsu to the everyman TV watcher.
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As workers have increasingly struggled to pay their current bills, due to employee earnings remaining static at a time where the high end of the income scale rose to unprecedented heights, it has become all the more difficult for these people to set aside money for their retirement.
Ford Motor hopes to win the race for the high-end market by adding two models next summer to the three in its popular F-150 series.
The 8X is equipped with the high-end components similar to the Nokia Lumia 920 and Samsung ATIV S Windows Phones.
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But first the benefits will accrue to high-end uses, the kinds of applications IBM itself is targeting in which intuitive computing will change the game as much as mathematical computing did for banks and computer games.
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If you can't get receipts from the previous owner, take pictures to document the high-end appliances or fancy shrubs you're writing off.
In addition, the company hopes to use the funding to expand production of high-end pieces and increase its inventory of rare gemstones.
The other strategy would be to continue to make the high end sets but also enter the market in that low end.
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