If we've seen one thing proven in tech in the last five years, it is that no one--especially no one in a position of authority--has yet been able to accurately predict where the Internet is going.
For example, if there are two well qualified candidates for a job who each have disabilities and can only work part time and a manager has only one full-time opening, does that manager have the authority to make a decision to create two part-time positions in lieu of the one full-time position so that the two people with the disabilities can share the job?
Two Russian oil companies, Yukos and Sibneft, are to merge, knocking Lukoil from the number-one position in Russia and creating the world's third-largest private oil company in production terms.
During the quarter, Lenovo further strengthened its number-one position in China by 2.3 points, which resulted in an industry-leading market share in China of 31.7 percent, widening the gap between Lenovo and its major rivals.
With model in hand, the question becomes how much of a position should one take in a small-cap value index fund?
However, the Marine Corps told the BBC "no-one in the Marine Band is in a position to assess whether it was live or pre-recorded".
On the other hand, WB tends to be very disciplined in messaging, even during internal debates, so it might make more sense to think that some lower-level folks heard the rumors and know about the different ideas floating around, and it was one of those lower-level people who took the info and leaked it in order to advance one position or the other.
In Liguori's most recent position--one he's held since Entertainment President Kevin Reilly joined the network in July 2007-- he had been responsible for all Fox program development and scheduling as well as marketing, business affairs and promotions.
Eli Manning and Tom Brady are never on a field together, not assigned to stop each other, never in a position to compete one-on-one.
During the second quarter, Lenovo grew its number-one position in China, the world's largest PC market, to a leading market share of 34 percent, up 2.4 points year-over-year.
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"If I'd gone against the medical experts, people would have thought I was mad - or, worse in my position - trying to do the dirty on one of the clubs, " he told French newspaper L'Equipe.
Miller has led Clyde to a safe, mid-table position in Division One despite having a small budget with the Cumbernauld club.
Ireland are in a similar position to Wales with one top-class veteran stand-off, in this case O'Gara, and the young pretender snapping at his heels.
"With the collapse of the Soviet Union Cuba was in a position where no-one thought it would survive -- they lost 80 percent of their trade overnight, " says Wendy Emmett of COSG.
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By 1995 the unthinkable happened: EDS lost its number one position in services revenue to a Johnny-come-lately: IBM, which had formed its Global Services unit only four years earlier.
The Spaniard traded fastest lap times with team-mate Sebastien Buemi in a quiet opening half hour and improved his lap time by over six seconds, but he still finished the session in 20th position, one place behind his team-mate.
The 22-year-old can operate in more than one position but Simpson stressed he intends to use him as a midfielder.
Perhaps unaware that Dhoni had put one of his best fielders, Murali Vijay, in that position - where he replaced the less mobile Amit Mishra - Hayden was about six inches short of his ground when Vijay's throw ripped out a stump.
Pietersen will fill the problem position, one he has not occupied in 110 previous one-day internationals.
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So, the plumber converts one producing employee positions to part-time in order to afford the enforcement position.
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In the global tablet market, IDC expects Apple will have maintained its number one position in 2012 with a 53.8% market share -- but that is a fall from a 56.3% share in 2011.
Apple was arguably in such a position in the mid-1980s, when it made one out of every six personal computers sold in America.
One counter-intuitive tactic I suggest to thaw minds frozen in opposition to your position is offering-up a mea culpa while pressing your case as you do so.
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Hence, to grow (or even maintain) its substantial advertising revenues, Expedia must sustain its market position in the face of a widespread consumer shift towards one-stop social networks.
And because there is only one preferred seating position in the back, the rear cabin itself constitutes a two-class service.
One would expect him to position himself as a mover and shaker in New Delhi - yet he has chosen not to participate in the central government.
"We have strengthened our capital position and remain one of the best-capitalised banks in the world, allowing us both to invest in organic growth and grow dividends, " the company said in a statement.
This could hurt the state's junior (Republican) senator, Spencer Abraham, who faces one of the toughest re-election races in the country, strengthen the Democrats' position in the state legislature and even send Michigan's 18 electoral college votes to Al Gore, a determined opponent of vouchers.
According to the account, the board claimed it was being put in an "inviduous position by the continued refusal to set a budget - with one member going so far as to add that he would be obliged to consider his position were the state of affairs to continue".
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