While Apple remained comfortably in front with its 39.6 percent, just about every rival made a dent: Samsung, ASUS, Amazon and Microsoft all gained at least a small amount, even if no one manufacturer posed a major threat.
That was followed by the explosive growth of available mutual funds by which investors could swap an entire portfolio with just one phone call, and later just a click of a computer mouse, with no transaction cost if handled directly with the mutual fund, and only one small commission if handled through a discount broker.
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You probably should be if you own a small business in one of the wealthy suburbs of Los Angeles.
The whole point of the "risk adjusted" element of RAMI is that it's meant to allow at least some degree of comparison between death rates in different hospitals, even if say, one is a small hospital doing very little complex surgery, and another is a large hospital treating a high number of trauma and critical cases.
Motorola avoided smartphones, seeing them as a small business even if one with higher than traditional margins.
Among the masters of realpolitik Nicos Sampson may have had no more than a small role, if a violent one.
Motorola ( MOT - news - people ) avoided smartphones, seeing them as a small business even if one with higher than traditional margins.
But he added that if you had a small star - as this one is - then a moderate-sized planet would block out enough light to be detected by telescopes.
You might also be wary if you're a small-business owner in one of dozens of communities near San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta or the District of Columbia.
Quantum mechanics tells us that if such a Higgs field exists, then one can produce real particles out of the field if one throws enough energy into a small enough volume.
Every cent more that Verizon has to pay for its prize is a small victory for Qwest, even if a Pyrrhic one.
As the governor has argued somewhat melodramatically, a small infringement of civil liberties is surely worthwhile if one child is saved.
If the business sometimes resembled a black market, it was a small one: nobody seriously imagined getting rich digging up prehistoric bones.
The four-country replacement project has strong Latvian support, but Poland is lukewarm and Estonia is considering a small nuclear-power plant of its own if the joint one falls through.
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If eternal inflation is right, our observiball would be a small patch within one such bubble.
When you do something like this there is a chance, albeit a small one that you can screw up your device- if you're worried about this, don't do it.
He also drew attention to the statement from the Federation of Small Businesses claiming that everyone looking for a job could be employed if every SME recruited one more person.
Humana projected a rate increase of up to 78% for one small, relatively healthy employer if it renewed its policy at the regular time, in January, according to a document provided to a broker.
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These are one on one things now, small groups, you try to - if you're a Republican you trying to court religious conservatives.
Or what if they're both managed funds investing in small caps or in a specific industry sector and you sell one and buy the other?
If a small fraction of that business comes through Promachonas, it will be a boon for what used to be one of Greece's poorer regions.
The system as a whole responds better to parents' wishes, too: if local authorities try to close a much-loved small rural school, parents simply apply to open their own one.
One would have at least hoped for tech that surpassed current consoles, even if only by a small margin.
One performance strikes some sparks, if only in spurts: Mandy Moore's Sally, a small-town girl who emerges as Omer's main singing competition on the show.
One of the biggest problems in our health care system right now is if you're a small business owner or if you're self-employed, you often have such a small number of workers that insurance companies aren't all that interested in your business.
One small step, one opportunistic leap, and if you get to the end of the board you become a king.
We all exhibit one or two of these traits to a small degree, but a narcissist has most, if not all, with intensity.
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If inequality is one of those things that you worry about, surely a little more in-country inequality is a small price to pay for a fall in global?
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Some experts say one way to tell if a person is a supertaster is to count the number of papillae in a small area after dying the tongue with food coloring, a test that can be done at home.
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