If the town board chooses to permit public participation, it can adopt "reasonable rules" to ensure fairness.

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There are four postures people can adopt: keep it from happening, let it happen, help it happen and make it happen.

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And studies have shown that when communities adopt broadband access, it can lead to hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

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Each nation must adopt the accord before it can be signed formally, which EADS hopes will happen by the end of the year.

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If the Dutch can successfully implement this technology, TSA should adopt it as well.

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Yet enterprise can be slow to adopt an outside-in view of things because it goes against the grain of traditional systems planning.

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And I think it was a way to get people to kind of early adopt it, to kind of try it out and see what it can do and really get some traction for it.

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So even though Apple can roll out updates to its operating system faster (because it makes all the devices) and therefore get users to adopt them faster, individual Android developers can update their individual apps faster than iOS developers.

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On the supply side, producers can start by selling their superior new product at a loss: if it really is superior, the market will adopt it and move across.

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