Because little research, and even less development, has happened since, the pipeline of good ideas is getting steadily emptier.
Solving the environmental crisis would require more, not less, development.
PRTs have been a useful improvisation in difficult circumstances, fairly effective in improving security but less so at development work.
As Ethernet has spread, individual brilliance has mattered less in its development.
Outside of oil and gas projects and a few specific infrastructure projects (ports like Jebel Ali and airports like Dubai), far less real economic development has happened in the oil-rich parts of the Arab world than would be expected based on their great endowment of human and natural resources.
AMD, with a research-and-development budget less than 15% of Intel's, may actually be out-innovating it.
The World Health Organization has called for the development of less harmful cigarettes.
Respondents consistently described wireless broadband as having a less direct impact on economic development than wired broadband.
In less than a century, development has globalized the world, placing its cultures in positions which are all at once unsettling and stimulating.
At present the EU spends about 2% of its GDP on research and development, significantly less than the US (2.8%) and Japan (over 3%).
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Later, as my company grew I began to do less and less in terms of actual development work until finally the company was acquired.
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The result is vastly inflated research and development costs, less innovation and diminished exploitation of superior techniques and products that could offer more crop for the drop.
Less money in the fee kitty translates into fewer support staff, less advanced technology systems, and less money for research and development of new store formats or products.
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There has also been a significant, but less remarked-upon, development: In 2011 it became legal, for the first time in 50 years, for Cubans to buy and sell property.
Now the company is shifting its strategy to focus more on selling its power plants and power plant development expertise and less on selling solar panels to distributors and other buyers.
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The Russian Ministry of Economic Development is slightly less optimistic, predicting that 2012 GDP growth will be in the 3.4-3.7% range (though it reserves the right to revise this upward if necessary).
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Even the more successful churches are kept on their toes by the market approach of Pentecostalism, in which each congregation is encouraged to be more or less responsible for its own development.
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It said there was an "urgent need" to provide the extra pitches, because otherwise it may not be able to prevent granting permission for the development of "less suitable sites" across the borough.
Research shows that less than two cents of every development dollar goes toward adolescent girls.
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Our rule-following nature is contingent on our social development (though no less contingent than our goal-seeking nature).
To make this process less haphazard, Weeks has business development scouts casing the world for problems to solve.
County manager Bill Aymar says restrictions on future development means a lot less revenue for the county down the road.
The scheme's founders promise that film-makers will be free to approach the development process in a less conventional manner than is the norm.
If I did it all again I would try to speed up the development phase and waste less time agonizing over glitches and headaches.
Steve was even less able to take part in development of the second-generation iPad he has just announced, yet a first look suggests that his team has successfully applied all the lessons they learned from working under him.
If the impetus is on IT to act more like a product development company, and less like an institutional bureaucracy, our view is that this is the sort of paradigm that IT should adopt, instead of being highly reactive.
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Fear of these losing outcomes often leads to a number of suboptimal choices, including over-capitalizing a company (trying to protect against the downside), cutting the burn so much as to cut corners and impair a program (doing an under-powered clinical study), or doing less-than-optimal business development deals.
This will make the company less vulnerable to the vagaries of geothermal development at future projects.
Transport developments will be no less powerful an influence in shaping city development in the next century.
Because of the tax, medical-device firms will also have less money to invest in research and development.
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