At the scientific level it poses new challenges for the scientists to devise new technologies that are not available anywhere.
At one time the technique was widely used within corporations to help come up with new product ideas or to devise radically new manufacturing processes.
Instead, politicians in both parties use the funds to devise new programs that are near impossible to sunset.
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Enterprises the world over will need to devise new strategies to engage the digital consumer in increasingly clever ways.
Other efforts to devise new ways of killing the killer bugs fizzled.
Pharmaceutical companies devise new drugs for the conditions it defines, lawyers use it to sue doctors, ordinary people use it to diagnose themselves.
Rich countries have to devise new technologies to maintain rapid growth, but producers in poorer countries can copy those technologies at relatively low cost.
As they devise new chips, however, designers face a problem.
After last year's riots in England, the government asked local authorities to identify troubled families and appointed Ms Casey - Tony Blair's former "respect czar" - to help devise new policies.
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Today the Big Oil consortium created to devise new deepwater oilwell containment gear announced that it has completed its new system and is ready to deploy it in the Gulf of Mexico.
To complete the drilling without mishap, the rover's operators on Earth had to devise new procedures to solve a series of computer software problems that affected the craft's motor's control systems, said JPL drill-systems engineer Scott McCloskey.
One or two meetings might be in order to determine how things went awry, and once Bondy is safely on the plane back home it should be relatively easy to devise new stage business to replace his lamer notions.
These findings are being used to devise a new test for diagnosing dyscalculia at an early age.
Even so, the firm has yet to take advantage of groupware that would allow salesmen to devise fancy new financial products.
The 1970 Bengals replaced Sam Wyche with Virgil Carter, whose arm was so weak he forced his offensive coordinator to devise a new passing attack.
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Ten film composers, including Downton Abbey composer John Lunn, were commissioned to devise a new movement inspired by the original titles of Handel's Water Music.
Mr Morgan reckons that local firms would perform much better and would devise more new products if they made better use of the research labs of local universities.
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Ministers failed to close divisions over debt relief for poor nations, promising to devise a new plan that would ease the debt burden stifling growth in mainly African countries.
This prompted the Kindle team to devise a new business model, striking deals with mobile-phone operators to allow Kindle users to download e-books without having to pay network fees.
Now Mr Byers's immediate tasks are to devise a new railways structure that serves passengers better and to ensure that the railways can still raise the private finance that his plans envisaged.
We have both a need and an opportunity to devise a new form of economic organization, and a new science of management, that can deal with the breakneck realities of 21st century change.
The Central Bank and the Finance Ministry joined forces earlier this week to devise two new measures and amendments to the Constitution to keep the Brazilian real from strengthening too much against the dollar.
Secretary Rumsfeld proposes to draw on this experience, the recommendations of numerous independent review panels and the insights he and others have garnered in the business sector, to devise a new National Security Personnel System.
If you want to know why drug research remains a slow and frustrating business even in this golden age of molecular biology, look at the troubles Vertex Pharmaceuticals has gone through to devise a new drug to combat hepatitis C.
As a Sibos speaker noted some years ago, the front office will never stop trying to devise complex new ways to make money, and it certainly will not be deterred in its quest by any potential processing problems its innovations create for the back office.
If you want to know why drug research remains a slow and frustrating business even in this golden age of molecular biology, look at the troubles Vertex Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: VRTX - news - people ) has gone through to devise a new drug to combat hepatitis C.
The impetus is now upon the U.S. and its allies to recognize this new state of warfare and devise and implement the appropriate countermeasures.
American companies remain the most innovative in the world, with an ability to devise or adapt to new corporate forms and new technologies at frightening speed.
When the fight against al Qaeda and our efforts in Afghanistan needed new focus, Bob Gates helped us devise the strategy that has finally put al Qaeda on a path to defeat and ensures that Afghanistan never again becomes a source for attacks against our nation.
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America has set up its new Cyber Command both to defend its networks and devise attacks on its enemies.
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