Bottom line, world-class companies woke up and realized that it was just a whole lot easier to work with patent licensing companies like Acacia than to wage constant battle.
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Willy Brandt International Airport, named for Germany's famed Cold War leader, was supposed to have been up and running in late 2011, a sign of Berlin's transformation from Cold War confrontation line to world class capital of Europe's economic powerhouse.
The bottom line: The world cannot afford another bank bailout, but cannot live with another Lehman-style event either.
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The good news is anyone, anywhere in any size company can play in this real-time, on-line social media world.
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The bottom line is the world has become more finance-based, according to Bourne.
The line includes the world's first USB 3.0 Solid State Drive (SSD), capable of true data transfer speeds of 250MB per second.
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Uniquely mixing vintage Rock'n'Roll, Rockabilly, R'n'B, Doo-Wop and Instrumentals, the show has attracted a big-following across the UK and on-line around the world.
The original Maginot Line failed during World War II because the German Army went around it, through Belgium, and soon ended up in Paris.
Love or hate deficits, the simple truth is that right or wrong, investors around the world line up to buy the debt that the U.S. Treasury issues.
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The bottom line is the world will survive without the NFL and the NBA. The real question is can the NFL and NBA survive without the world?
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One employee proudly boasts that Bentley--which is today owned by Volkswagen (otc: VLKAY - news - people )--has the slowest production line in the world.
Royal Caribbean Cruises (nyse: RCL - news - people) is the second-largest cruise line in the world, a position it attained through aggressive expansion and acquisitions.
The Caf executive committee took the decision to bring the Nations Cup in line with the World Cup and the European Championships, both of which have brought in the new ruling.
The highly automated factory, to pick only one example, can out-compete any assembly line in the world that runs the old-fashioned way, even if its workers are plugging in widgets and tightening bolts for 30 cents an hour.
Despite years of resistance to any form of instant replay, soccer's world governing body announced Tuesday that it would fully implement goal-line technology for the 2014 World Cup and the 2013 Confederations Cup.
This is the plot line that has galvanized world opinion, igniting calls for intervention from a variety of sources.
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Only the NBA, with a 7% rise in prices since the '05-'06 season, has kept in line with the real world.
Facebook is going to be part of world time line photography exhibit.
Third, while it is tempting to draw a line between the physical world and the virtual, the truth is that these worlds are merging.
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Chelsea trio John Terry, Frank Lampard and Claude Makelele won places in the World XI line-up, which was voted for by their fellow professionals.
And since many videogames mimic real-life situations, we just need to be sure that the line between the real world and the video world remains clearly drawn.
In response, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe plans to close 3, 700 post offices, many in small rural communities where the local post office is their logistical supply line to the larger world.
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There was the deliberate handball on the line in a 2010 World Cup quarterfinal to deny Ghana a clear goal he received a red card for that and was jokingly called "the best goalkeeper of the tournament" by the Netherlands goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg.
The 2012 season will is see a total of six former world champions line-up on the grid, with Raikonnen and Vettel being joined by Mercedes' seven-time winner Michael Schumacher, Ferrari's two-time champion Fernando Alonso and McLaren's championship-winning duo of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.
The U.S. has a virtually unlimited line of credit into the world's savings pool.
Nothing could seemingly go wrong with this indisputably talented team with the best batting line-up in the world.
If the visit goes ahead, Mrs Albright will be putting her prestige on the line in one of the world's most explosive regions.
Culture lies on the front line of conflicts across the world.
The bottom line is that the energy world has changed in a fundamental way that has yet to be absorbed by the punditocracy, or incorporated in policy.
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Or, see the great island by boat on a Circle Line day cruise, a World Yacht dinner cruise, or even the free Staten Island Ferry, where you sail right past Lady Liberty.
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