This is only a micro strategy for those that have to be at work through year-end.

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We'll talk about how micro-finance, a strategy for fighting poverty in the developing world, is catching on in this country.

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But Drew Prairie of Advanced Micro's media relations division, said the acquisition is an essential component of the company's long-term strategy to integrate Advanced Micro's microprocessors and ATI's graphics and chipsets.

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Evidently, Obama's campaign strategy is to conduct multiple micro-campaigns rather than one national campaign.

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So here is one sound holiday strategy: buy the J9 for yourself and the Micro 9 for friends.

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Kennedy's investment strategy is to ride the momentum of usually small- or micro-cap stocks that break to a new significant high and then continue to put in new highs over the next six-week period.

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If Transmeta shows signs of stealing Intel's customers, Intel could easily undercut the newcomer's prices--a strategy that has served it well over the years against rival Advanced Micro Devices amd (nyse: amd - news - people).

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In Europe, for example, where regulators have an even heavier hand on the special access scales, efforts to micro-manage pricing have left incumbent providers unable to make a profit or develop any long-term strategy.

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As many international micro finance institutions have demonstrated (although not yet proven nationally), lending to poor people can be a sustainable strategy as these nontraditional institutions get repaid and repay investors. (Note: Microfinance institutions are a subset of CDFIs in the United States).

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