Soccer is a sport for a reason, you win and you lose, no matter your quality.
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On the matter of quality, however, Mr Prodi's group does not look too bad.
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That 2015 release seems a fairly safe bet given the box-office reliability of all things Star Wars no matter the quality (Phantom Menace anyone?).
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The TL350 allows users to capture high-quality images no matter how fast the action may be.
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We apologise to our customers and take this matter very seriously as food quality is our highest priority.
For a woman who had created her reputation on top quality, no matter the expense, this was unacceptable.
"We apologize to our customers and take this matter very seriously as food quality is our highest priority, " he said.
It is just a matter of time before more quality apps are developed for Android to tip the network effects advantage.
But shadow universities minister Gareth Thomas denounced the White Paper as "a desperate drive to cut fees, no matter what the effect on quality".
Costs matter because they can handicap performance of a fund, but the quality of holdings is paramount because no matter how cheap the fund, the performance will be bad if the holdings are bad.
Proximity of hospitals and word-of-mouth reputation often matter more to patients than published quality indicators.
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But in this specialized area of collecting, subject matter is top dog, while quality often plays second fiddle.
But then I started thinking, does the picture quality at that level really matter?
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If costs matter and you want that same high quality, the project is just going to take longer.
No doubt this is true, but the report would have benefited from a mention of the opposite problem in the U.S.: the existence of so-called Davis-Bacon requirements for most public works, which set the prevailing union wage scale no matter what the competitive market pay for quality work would be.
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The things that matter in education, says Bloomberg: teacher quality, teacher quality, teacher quality.
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To those who would define better performance in education as "quality learning" or "subject matter difficulty, " this strategy looks doomed to fail.
People may have a hard time accepting that their precious smartphone has some bugs in its software, but the truth of the matter is that there are diminishing returns to code quality and defects get shipped all the time.
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Helium, started last October, is an open-source news service where the community chooses the subject matter, writes the articles and then rates them for quality.
The firm made copies of the story and mailed it around the world, emphasizing their home grown roots, commitment to quality and personal story to confirm that no matter how technical and expensive their products are, human beings are behind every speaker and amp.
Proximity to the customer, quality, responsiveness, delivery times and other factors matter as well.
Few things matter more to a community's well-being than the quality of its public education.
Nor, for that matter, either Hewlett-Packard, which has a high-quality business video conferencing service called Halo, nor Cisco, which last year bought Tandberg to extend its telepresence business.
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