Some items, like perishable goods or "hot" cyclical fashion items, carry the additional risk of becoming stale or obsolete before they can be sold.
Sadly, that news portends that the hand-written thank you note could be going the way of the original Polaroid camera or vinyl records beloved, yet marginalized or obsolete.
Mrs Hunter-Mann-Purdy and Ms Purdy, both of Harwich Road, were part of a group that plotted to convert antique or obsolete .44 calibre firearms into deadly weapons, the court was told.
They've spent months working with the community in Govan to create a piece which will involve firing language across the river, using unusual or obsolete technology - everything from choirs to flags to medieval catapults (their trebuchet is well under way in a nearby lockup).
In these cases, the utility book value of nuclear or technologically obsolete plants and equipment exceeds market value.
Arizona and Rhode Island have a similar number of structurally deficient or functionally obsolete bridges -- 384 and 405 respectively.
Many free market critics of the FTC have stated that the fast-paced nature of the tech industry has rendered antitrust law as ineffective or even obsolete.
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As much as it's important to have every component of a PC stuck together in a laptop, that same monolithic strategy is a major liability for server clusters: if one part breaks or grows obsolete, it can drag down everything else.
In 2001 OMB requested public nominations of rules that should be rescinded or modified, with an emphasis on rules that were obsolete or outmoded.
Federal agencies have little or no discretion to target spending cuts by, say, getting rid of obsolete or poorly-run programs.
As revolutionary as it is, the Internet does not make centuries-old laws of war obsolete or irrelevant.
The fourth of phones that are obsolete or have fatal defects like fading display screens go to a recycler that extracts precious metals like gold.
Conventional search, which Google dominates, is under pressure from social networking, hand-held devices and cloud computing areas Google has to pursue aggressively or risk becoming obsolete.
The fourth of phones that are obsolete or have fatal defects like fading display screens go to a Midwest recycler that extracts precious metals like gold.
Federal Highway Administration data from 2006 shows that 24.5 percent of the nation's bridges longer than 20 feet were categorized as "structurally deficient" or "functionally obsolete" (data from Utah and New Mexico was from 2005).
Initial goals become obsolete or insufficient.
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"They never addressed the issue of reverse logistics, of what happens to obsolete or excess products, " said Stambouli, who spent his youth watching his father run an importing business in Bulgaria before heading to the London School of Economics for his undergraduate degree.
Is the SX-70 obsolete, or is digital technology still lagging behind what Land and his team accomplished?
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If Yahoo will allow itself to develop technologies that make their present offerings obsolete, or augment them in a way that makes them a clear market leader, and market them with reckless abandon, the company has the ability to become relevant for decades to come.
We have no obligation to preserve obsolete business models or industries.
We lose that chance to inspire a future engineer, the one who will grow up to revolutionize solar power, or make the iPhone as obsolete as Steve Jobs made the Discman.
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With both players largely operating from the same places on the floor, the team's spacing was insufficient, and either one scorer or the other was often obsolete based on where he was standing.
But too often these first generation technologies become obsolete too quickly, or they become unaffordable to maintain.
Of course, something like Wal-Mart would ruin that and 60% or more of incomes would become obsolete.
Nor should we manufacture goods rendered obsolete by technological advances or shifting tastes.
Telling Google engineers that their Google projects destroy cable TV or book publishing by making them obsolete should be much easier, certainly easier than building a driverless car.
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In 2005, in fact, they found that 156, 000 bridges were structurally deficient or, as they said, functionally obsolete.
And many, anticipating a career break at some point in the future, enter fields where their skills will not quickly become obsolete, such as law or human resources.
And I think that you will get a very engaged and aggressive partner in this administration in identifying those areas where there's no dispute with respect to the goal but -- something is being done through paper as opposed to email, or we haven't adapted to new technologies, or the rule was written for an obsolete business model that doesn't really apply to today.
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