Sprint warns that there could be an impact on makers of handsets that rely on those minerals.
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Declining mobile phone pricing could negatively impact mobile phone chipset makers like Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Infineon Technologies and Broadcom.
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In addition, the U.S. health care reforms have had negligible impact on European drug-makers.
Analysts say the proposal may be aimed at countering a surge in foreign money that has caused Indian share prices to rise sharply - worrying some policy makers about its potential impact on the broader economy.
Impact investors, donors and policy makers can be far more forward thinking by linking resources to fund the next round of technology innovation and offering incentives to thought leaders to tackle the ethical and moral questions.
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Yet the industry's attitude towards its growing environmental impact is rather unusual: computer-makers actually seem to enjoy drawing attention to it.
However, out there on the cutting edge, innovative urban planners, policy-makers, social entrepreneurs and impact investors are advancing the development of natural or green infrastructure (GI).
Just imagine what all of us could do to build bridges between business and social entrepreneurs, highways for innovative ideas to fly faster, markets for philanthropic capital to reach impact more effectively, networks of change-makers learning and collaborating.
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What does impact actually look like on the audiences media-makers hope to reach?
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The company noted that it expects some Q4 weakening of brand advertising from the auto sector, where Japanese car makers cut spending, but that the impact should be offset by growth in other sectors.
For phone makers, any change by carriers could have an impact on the sales of high-end devices.
The goal is to groom companies and organizations interested in furthering the values and increasing the impact of public service media, not to create blockbuster profit-makers.
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Thus, the key question that policy makers need to understand is how do we create more high impact entrepreneurs?
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Governor Shirakawa reiterated that his policy makers will continue to pursue seamless monetary easing and will monitor the impact of the JPY on the economy.
Peto writes that "any competent trial statistician" would back his conclusions and says that Vytorin's makers, Merck and Schering-Plough, do not pay his salary and had no impact on the decision to conduct his analysis or on how the analysis was conducted (see Peto's letter).
No matter how much policy makers try to accelerate the growth of alternative vehicle fuels, from alcohol to electrons, the collective impact will be miniscule in any meaningful time-frame.
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The answer is that for policy makers whose survival depends on economic recovery, few activities have such direct, intense and immediate positive economic impact as new home construction.
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