It is the difference between being what Mr. Griffith called a "business model company" and a plain old money-making enterprise.

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After making a copy of the file, the hacker ran it through a code-breaking program that exposed the passwords as plain text.

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Moreover, the row comes just a few weeks after the bishops enraged many Spaniards on the left by making it plain that devout Catholics should vote for Jose Maria Aznar's centre-right People's Party.

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He loved this job because he got to focus more on supply chain optimization than plain pharmacy, and working alongside him, I began to grasp that making a living is a necessity, but having the freedom to look at the bigger picture is a special privilege.

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Their latest product, Rebel, is chiefly about making it easy to do what hackers have been doing for years: make OS X work on a plain vanilla PC.

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But when some of his employees started recruiting on a university campus, the students' parents complained furiously and the government took their side, making it plain that Mr Smith's firm had crossed an invisible line.

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