Federal legacy IT system inertia compete with standards and can also be orthogonal to Benchmarked Industry Best Practices.

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It's nicknamed "Madama" (My Lady) and is good even on rainy days thanks to 14 kilometers of covered passages and a chessboard center: orthogonal streets make it impossible to get lost.

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Daniel Gore of Orthogonal Partners, a firm that specialises in the area, says the aim is to find managers who are inventive in fields that are not congested by existing investors and in markets that may suffer from mispricing.

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Anna consists of ten segments containing angle sensors, two valves, and two motors each -- rotating around orthogonal axes and wrapped in a tough steel exoskeleton -- that are controlled by a computer to help her maneuver over numerous types of terrain.

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As we have done successfully in diverse areas from space flight to oil cleanup, an incentivized competition could drive privately funded research and result in innovative, orthogonal solutions.

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