Over the past 12 months, we successfully demonstrated the value of our intellectual property, continued to attract the interest of operators around the globe to TiVo's advanced television solutions and TiVo's total subscription number moved to a strong positive trajectory.

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Yet despite the fact that we are all as familiar with this formula as we are with compound interest, very little of this intellectual water ever reaches our stone dry hearts.

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However, it is apparent that Mr Reagan possessed intellectual powers and new ideas for areas of lifelong interest to him.

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In a country where government deficits make capital scarce and interest rates high, the best firms rely on intellectual assets rather than on tangible ones.

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Lack of market incentives and funding, rather than intellectual property rights, are the real brakes on research into crops of greatest interest to the poor.

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The quest for the constantly new was driven by a lightning-quick mind and short attention span for anything that failed to interest him, the fear of boredom, and an insatiable need for intellectual stimulation.

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Kennan was a foreign-policy intellectual who also happened to be a government official, and this gave his writing special interest on the outside and authority on the inside.

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He continues to maintain a lively interest in ideas: the book group that meets regularly in his house in Brentwood includes such intellectual celebrities as James Q.

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