Aside from being a dominant tech power that is positioned for sustained growth, Oracle also proved that it is a savvy dividend payer by accelerating its next three dividend payments into one check at the height of the fiscal cliff situation.
Hip hop has long since proved that it is no cultural or intellectual fad.
Apple has so far proved that it is possible to earn high margins with brilliant design and by offering consumers ways to access the internet effortlessly wherever they go.
Mexican football has proved that it is capable of producing talented young players, who now need to be developed with two things which are fundamental for youngsters - patience and opportunities.
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Last year Hewlett-Packard, along with a team of scientists from UCLA, proved that it is possible to make a switch that can be turned off and on, like a transistor, out of a single organic molecule called a catenane.
It is the bare bones of quantum mechanics that have proved to be consistent with what is presently known of the subatomic world.
But it is the abortion plank that has proved to the most polarizing.
Long time critics said it proved that the Corporation is badly run and that its chairman Lord Patten should now face the chop.
Alain Fracheboud, a gun shop owner in Geneva, told me that if it is proved to be the weapon used it is "a bizarre choice for a professional killer".
If the last fortnight has proved anything, it is that the changes are likely to be one of the most controversial aspects of government policy in the coming years.
It's just that no one has definitively proved how large it is.
This device has proved so effective that it is likely to be used again in future.
But one thing I doubt will ever be proved false is that it's much easier not to gain the weight in the first place than to take it off later.
It has proved controversial with criticisms that it is overly generous to the private contractors.
But this time it is beset by problems, and Mr McCain has not proved that he knows how to deal with them.
In other words, a settlement could insulate Google from competitors, which would be especially troubling, because the company has already proved that when it comes to searches it is not infallible.
"Unfortunately, efforts to sell the business as a going concern have proved unsuccessful and after much consideration it is with great regret that the board of directors has taken this very difficult decision to close the Fashion and Home business, " he said.
We've been in the business of analyzing and forecasting the economy for almost 45 years, and this is our fourth great call in the sense that it proved to be an important development that few others believed possible at the time we made it.
It is precisely because the stakes are so high that a ceasefire has proved so elusive.
This might not seem a big deal, but it is the first time science has proved what was hitherto mere speculation: that the brain, when dreaming, behaves like the brain when awake.
It is cheap to get rid of, so projects that do so have proved enormously profitable.
If the site's popularity is anything to go buy, it's a model that's proved tremendously successful.
This provides causal evidence that illusions represent not the world as it is, but what proved useful to see in one's past interactions with the sources of retinal images.
Buffett was impressed that the company had met its benchmarks for a plan introduced in 2007 called the 2010 Road Map, and in 2011 proved it is on its way toward the goals set forth in the 2015 Road Map that replaced it.
Yea, that study that actually tested all other conceivable factors, performed a detailed analysis, replicated the analysis among multiple populations and proved conclusively that herd immunity can be conferred in the population if 95% of it is vaccinated.
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It seems that the analysis at the time - that it would trigger a spate of mergers and takeovers in the banking sector - is being proved spot on.
They could decide to stop the trial if it has already proved more effective, if Vytorin appears more dangerous than Zocor, or if there is no hope that Vytorin will prove more effective.
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It is sad but true, however, that during past technological revolutions few of the companies that pioneered the change proved to be good long-term investments.
Dr Blobel hypothesised, and then proved, that each of these location-specific proteins is created with a tag that tells it where to go or, rather, latches on to the place it is supposed to be in when it gets there.
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