Unlike many others who had focused on agriculture when they studied peasants, Dunham saw the peasant industries as a survival strategy where generalists could move from plowing to making bricks or repairing bicycles, weeding or making batik cloth or running a roadside stall as demand shifted.

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Cephalon's five-year annualized sales growth of 102% makes it the fastest-growing biotech in the U.S. (after weeding out tiny firms or ones with big problems) and the sixth fastest-growing tech company overall.

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There has therefore been no weeding out of capacity by merger or failure.

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The members of the subak meet in their own temple to arrange repairs to the maze of irrigation channels that sustain them, and to plan when to start weeding, ploughing, planting, harvesting or even allowing flocks of ducks in their fields.

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This should postpone the weeding-out of weaker companies for a year or two.

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They are weeding out those mass e-mails they can, or asking senders to confirm their identities.

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This motif was created by identifying U.S. listed stocks (and ADRs or American Depository Receipts) with women at the helm, and weeding out the ones where female CEOs have been in place less than a year.

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Their standard short, specialised degrees suit only the well prepared: in three years there is no time for a ruthless weeding-out after one year, as is common elsewhere in Europe, or for a broad education before choosing a major subject, as in America.

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