The Vertu Ti, meanwhile, runs on an Android operating system in a sign of its separation from former parent company Nokia.

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He added that he tells his patients about his relationships with device makers in the consent form he makes them sign before operating on them.

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Typically, investors sell stocks when companies report lower margins because they worry it is a sign of increased operating costs or less-effective management execution.

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"If the beacon is operating... that's a good sign as a heavy landing can tend to prevent the beacon working, " Steve Rendle from the Rescue Co-ordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ), told Radio New Zealand.

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With many global companies now having similar systems operating in different continents, this will provide the first sign of whether there will be problems to come.

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Ken Gutman spent 22 years at Sign-A-Rama, a West Palm Beach, Fla. franchisor of business-sign shops, climbing from store manager to chief operating officer of the 1, 300-unit chain.

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Still, this may be a sign that Google is looking at merging the two operating systems, migrating all its devices gradually to one of them (probably Android), or at least providing more common technology underpinnings for them.

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Since a weak yen is increasing operating costs and the economy remains sluggish, there's little sign this is happening.

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He did so at the insistence of SEC regulators, after they had bungled yet another investigation of tips that Madoff was dishonest. (You can find details of that and other failed SEC investigations of Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, my book on his historic Ponzi scheme.) Unable to find any sign of fraud, regulators concluded that Madoff was merely operating as a money-manager without having registered.

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