Back to inflation, the less volatile core reading, which excludes food and energy, gained 0.2% in February, in line with expectations.
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Headline PPI slid 0.1% last month on lower food and energy costs, while the less volatile core measure surprised analysts jumping 0.3%.
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But as the capability matured, it became more prevalent and therefore less of a core differentiator.
Co-chief executive Bill McDermott sees more on the way, thanks less to the core business than to its efforts in analytics and mobility, which he says put the company into a higher-margin business with an upside for years to come.
Over the last decade, Heinz has undergone significant restructuring shedding its less profitable non-core businesses with greater resource focus on core products and brands, product development and marketing.
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You want to take care not to be casual about making your choices and later discover you have a significantly less-than-optimal core group.
Anything that can look self-serving or like self-promotion should be avoided, and connection to the company's core competency is less important than serving actual needs.
Spokesman Darren Dopp noted that the dropped charges were wholly unrelated to, and less serious than, the core charge of fraud that it had filed against Greenberg and Smith, mainly on the basis of risk transfer transactions with General Reinsurance , or GenRe, that allegedly misstated AIG's financial health to its shareholders.
Expect the market this year to segment itself between performance-minded tablets and smartphones powered by dual-core ARM chips based around the 1 GHz Cortex A9-MPCore, and less-expensive mass-market offerings running single-core versions of the A9.
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As soon as you back off, say by switching off the background music and allowing your foreground process to have all the processing power (and thereby complete its task more quickly), the benefits of having a dual-core machine will become far less tangible.
Core U.S. consumer prices (discounting energy and food) rose a less than expected 0.1% in July, but the core inflation rate was 2.4%.
After the hard-core gamers got their turns, less videogame-savvy editors took a shot, too.
More recently, BMW got it right when it resurrected the MINI brand as a way to reach younger, hipper and less-affluent buyers without otherwise cheapening its core brand.
Like Austin, San Antonio has grown out, not up - the suburbs sprawl away into the hotter, dustier and slightly less arable distance, leaving the old civic core unscathed.
This year Intel will lap AMD by finally scrapping the old Pentium-chip architecture in favor of a suite of lower-temperature, dual-core microprocessors that consume 35% less power and increase performance by 80%.
To find the network's so-called main core, Mr Chandler repeatedly filtered out less-connected cases.
Some features, however, signal that Apple is aiming at a less sophisticated audience, and have upset hard-core users.
"It's clear that the more delivery work which is done by private companies, the less there will be for Royal Mail, and core services could suffer with higher prices and lower service standards, " said CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward.
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Excluding food and energy costs, the core PPI rose 0.1 percent, less than economists expected.
Nvidia was less definitive about its ability to launch a quad-core chip in a consumer-ready smartphone in the next few months.
However, economists expected the core reading, which is a gauge of less volatile goods by excluding energy and food prices, to increase less than it did.
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"No nuclear power plant has ever considered the inability to get on long-term core cooling for more than a week, much less three weeks, " Friedlander said.
The rest are licensed and adapted for the local market from Chinese and Korean gaming companies--with some misses, such as introducing hard-core, martial arts features to Vietnam's less advanced gaming market.
In addition, the new Bluetooth technology uses less energy, so it will lengthen battery life on both the CORE 2 and mobile devices.
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Unlike some other less fortunate companies, RIM has a built-in group of core users for whom the BlackBerry is not only a phone, but a part of their lives.
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The higher up one is the less they see what is happening at the lower levels that are the core of the company.
An era of dissatisfaction reigns within a core audience that wants more of 2011, but is finding less of it in the 2012 version of Punk.
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The core Tier 1 ratio will rise to 7%, slightly less than expected but still a lot better than before the crisis (at the end of 2007, Royal Bank of Scotland had a ratio of just 3.5%).
There was a little less enthusiasm for the more esoteric section of the speech that dealt with his core theme: aspiration.
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