Costolo says more and more brands are flocking to Twitter, and the company would love to see more value-added services.
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Even so, supporters say they will continue to emphasize the need for startup visas to produce more value-added, tech-oriented jobs.
Construction is poised to return as a growth area in the U.S., but can be even more value-added if focused on environmentally efficient building retrofitting.
America is going through the same process of decline and denial that Britain went through in the 1950s and 1960s, the authors argue: rather than freeing people to move to more value-added activities, the loss of manufacturing jobs can lead to the loss of entire ecosystems of innovation.
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His spending program, known locally as the Economic Transformation Plan, is a bid to drag Malaysia out of the so-called middle-income trap, which forces many emerging economies to compete with each other in producing cheap exports instead of developing more-sophisticated, value-added products.
Now, they can focus on more qualitative, value-added commentary that humans are inherently good at.
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Services, which account for only 20% of world trade but are more important on a value-added basis, have hardly been liberalised at all.
For those retirees, it will require a more actively managed and value-added approach to their portfolios, including investments in the stock market, even then with no guarantees of success.
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And more U.S. value-added occurs at the end stages in logistics, retailing, and after-market servicing.
The country is also focusing more on high tech, value-added production.
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Why not give them a way to connect with their groups inside and outside of work to make all of their life easier to manage, leaving more time to focus on value-added tasks at work.
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Ms Harney recently took delivery of a new report on enterprise strategy by a committee chaired by Eoin O'Driscoll, managing director of Aderra, which argues not only for more emphasis on high-value-added sectors and scientific research but also for greater efforts in marketing and promotion, in which Ireland has been weak.
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The more firms can convince investors they engage in significant value-added research which only savvy investment professionals are capable of undertaking, the more attractive these investment counseling firms are to unskilled investors.
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That will put HP in more direct competition with IBM for value-added services.
Looking for other business, whether getting more money under management or giving value-added to clients, there has lately been an influx of non-attorney planners into the asset protection sector notwithstanding that they are wholly unqualified to provide advice in this area.
Retailers will continue to be important and, for more complex solutions, we will use value-added resellers.
As wages rise, manufacturers find themselves unable to compete either with lower-cost producers elsewhere or, in higher-value-added products, with more advanced economies.
Egypt's agricultural value-added per person rose more than 20% in 1990-2007.
China's huge size means that to maintain stellar growth rates, the economy needs to move up the value-added chain fast and grab more export market share.
Low-value-added manufacturing that tends to be more labor intensive are the most likely industries to shift some of their operations outside of the established manufacturing zones within China or move their operations to another country, although that usually entails having to contend with a lack of developed infrastructure and a smaller, less skilled workforce.
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The government has further plans, among them a tax reform replacing state sales taxes with a national value-added tax, and a second, more radical reform of pensions.
Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, thinks government should be more active in helping British firms, particularly high-tech, high-value-added and creative enterprises.
"Funding for Lending (FLS) should make this easier this year, resulting in more choice at higher loan-to-value deals and better rates, " he added.
Namely, beyond foregoing the obvious benefits that come from value-added processing such as refining (gasoline sells a lot more per gallon than the cost of a gallon of crude oil), we are incurring secondary costs that impact, in part, the very environment that radical environmentalists are trying to protect.
One reason is that European countries have value-added taxes, which are a disturbingly efficient way of generating more revenue.
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But value-added is complex and difficult to implement properly, and even more difficult to use as a metric for getting rid of bad teachers.
As an added bonus, my top dozen is really more like three dozen value-packed courses, since a few of the places I have picked have multiple layouts.
It seems like a short time ago that Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, subject of the best-selling book Moneyball, first employed a new school of analysis that placed added value on statistics like on-base percentage while devaluing more traditional numbers like batting average and stolen bases.
Some sort of value-added or sales tax, by contrast, would be at once more effective and more incendiary.
Its dealerships are distinctively designed, looking and feeling more like woodsy lodges than showrooms, with plenty of amenities and a full inventory of value-added Land Rover gear and clothing on hand to ensure nobody walks out the door without making a purchase.
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