Nintendo is likely just killing off a tool that has long outlived its usefulness.
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Fastow dusted off an obscure financial tool previously used to sell credit-card receivables to separately capitalized funds (he'd probably learned about it earlier in his career at Continental Bank in Chicago) and morphed it into the infamous LJM, Chewco and Raptor partnerships.
Step three is overcoming our tendency for using ambiguity as tool for staying off the hook.
When business is slow, is it better to market your business more using every marketing and social media tool available or taper off until the economy picks up?
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In his speech, Mr. Bloomberg scolded critics including civil liberties groups and mayoral candidates for overlooking the shooting while condemning stop-and-frisk practices, which he argues are an important tool in keeping guns off city streets.
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Both exploits take advantage of the Blackhole exploit kit, an off-the-shelf hacking tool that was updated last month to prey on the Java vulnerability, such that users who run the Java plug-in can have their PC entirely compromised via their browser when they visit an infected site.
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So, for example, he says, the company has an off-the-shelf data warehouse tool.
This is precisely the loophole that PROTECT IP and SOPA are intended to plug: apply existing laws to the operators of foreign rogue websites that blatantly and intentionally skirt these laws for their own profit and give our courts and enforcement agencies a tool to cut these sites off from the U.S. market.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly say it is a necessary, life-saving, crime-fighting tool that helps keep illegal guns off the street and has helped New York reach all-time crime lows.
Sqlmap, also free and billed as an off-the-shelf, penetration-testing tool, uses a command-line interface and requires a little more programming experience to use.
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Essentially, the tool allows you to store messages and photos off-site but still use the network to share them.
Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity has used its brush tool for the first time to sweep dust off the surface of a rock.
Clay Shaw is trying to fend off Democratic state legislator Ron Klein by painting him as a tool of special interests.
Nothing here is truly groundbreaking, per se, but it's the first time that we've seen such a giant company take a meaningful swing at a product sector that has caught fire for myriad reasons. 2012 is shaping up to be the year of the inexpensive tablet, but if Intel has its druthers, you'll be shaking off the hype and picking up a full-fledged computing tool instead.
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Although this figure is some way off an ideal 100%, it could still be a useful screening tool, say the researchers.
Crowdfunding is a tool in which donors contribute small sums of money to get a project off the ground.
House said his goal is to send the quarterbacks back to their hometowns with a "tool kit" both mentally and physically which they can use during the off-season.
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At a recent corporate executive summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, PR company Edelman revealed that social networking shaved 1% off its bottom line by encouraging its staff to use such websites as a recruitment tool.
But they've had that -- that tool has been removed from their toolbox, and I think the American economy is better off for it.
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