Preventive conservation refers to measures aimed at avoiding or minimizing deterioration or loss, meaning that actions are carried out within the context or in the surroundings of an object or group of objects, whatever their age or condition.

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Bradley's group, Palm Solutions, accounts for most of Palm's revenue but manages only 29 cents in gross profit on the sales dollar. (The software group, PalmSource, gets 91 cents on the dollar.) PalmSource gleefully licenses its fabled operating system to the likes of Sony and Kyocera, which then use it as a blunt object to beat Bradley's hardware group into the ground.

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You object so strong to this proposal that your group has launched a boycott, which I want to talk about in a moment.

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Not surprisingly, the posts have drawn the ire of the consumer bankruptcy bar, that esteemed group, as undoubtedly they will object loudly to this offering.

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Some critics of this approach object to the idea of government funding going to any group motivated by faith.

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Lucie Morillon, the group's representative in Washington, says the object of the campaign is to get media attention that will make its way back to Jill Carroll's captors.

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"But there are not that many clubs in the position of a Chelsea or a Manchester City where money is no object, " said Dan Jones, head of the Sports Business Group at Deloitte.

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