Chung was being forced out - by his own brother, no less - of a company he had helped to build nearly from scratch into a world-class competitor over a span of 32 years.
Fossil's a pretty successful force in the watch business, but the Wrist PDA it launched last year--by its own admission--was more or less a failure.
Considering that the entire futuristic Korean story is performed by its characters in plain English, and that we have no reason to believe that these later post-apocalyptic humans would even incorporate English into their own language, it feels less like a world-building method, and more like the writers being unnecessarily clever.
As I've noted before, winding up the RDAs might have made sense viewed from Whitehall, where London's economic dynamo has its own momentum for the south-east, needing less government intervention.
But such talk failed even to reassure Arizona's own legislators, who moved last Friday--less than two weeks after the law was passed--to amend the law's more draconian provisions after civil rights groups threatened to sue on constitutional grounds.
He composed music, wrote passable poetry (always in French), bought Old Masters on the European art market, collected porcelain, patronised architects (who frequently worked from the king's own drawings) and more or less single-handedly conducted the affairs of the Prussian state.
Companies may be confident that their own systems are bug-free, but they are less sure of those of others.
Tax law lets you rent your own home for 14 days or less, tax-free, provided you don't claim any expenses related to the rental.
On Wednesday, the Co-operative Group revealed independent tests of its own-brand burgers supplied by Silvercrest found traces of less than 1% horse DNA in three samples, and more than 17% in one sample.
In most cases, enrolling in do-it-yourself diets where you prepare your own food seem less costly.
Even on the unions' own figures, murders have fallen to less than two-fifths of the number in 2001.
My question: does this deal with Apple mean that Facebook is less likely to cut its own digital e-commerce content deals?
By allowing consultants to keep a bigger share of the profits from their own business units, it risked creating a less co-operative environment.
Looked at in this light, Mr Santorum is merely taking his turn as the final non-Romney, pushed aloft less by his own positives than by the negatives of his competitors, notably Mr Gingrich's bloated ego and Mr Romney's lack of conviction.
Santander has staffed its Latin American operations with its own credit-risk specialists, who veto any loan that offers less than a risk-adjusted return of 20% a year.
Subsidies are more generous in countries such as Portugal, which is keen on building a marine-power sector of its own and offers extra cash to less mature technologies.
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At the same time, many companies in Asia source a sizable percentage of raw materials from their own country, so they are paying relatively less for inputs -- yet they sell in U.S. dollars.
My own strong preference is that it focus less on acquiring mortgage-backed securities and be more of a tightly focused effort to minimize foreclosures and home vacancies that drive down property values for all of us.
Moreover, small-business owners became even less accurate at predicting their own layoffs during the economic downturn.
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Mr Kerry's speeches now incorporate some of Mr Edwards's two-nations rhetoric, and a little less of his own longwindness.
Vernon has its own gas-fired power station and sells electricity for about 20% less than elsewhere in the area.
However, Hewlett Packard says it is taking share from Cisco, Huawei says it has advanced products for less, and Juniper claims its own coherent, next-generation network.
And a good number of adults are setting up accounts for newborn babies - and are inevitably being less than frank about their own dates of birth.
The next most common factors is a drop in household income, which can be related to the death of a spouse or an independent factor. (Note: People who shift from owning to renting are generally economically less well-off than those who continue to own.) And the third factor: nursing home entry of a family member.
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Germany's greying argues for encouraging individuals to rely less on state-funded pensions and more on their own savings, as the FDP advocates.
The big but somewhat awkward truth--awkward in a democratic society that believes so fervently in equality--is that the schools make far less difference than your own ability.
Mr Jacobson expects the mid-terms to see many races between well-financed Democrats and Republican candidates with less money of their own but more help from outside organisations.
The tax-free sale of stock will also apply to individuals who own less than 1% of the company sold and hold the shares for at least 12 months.
His own work involves such things as understanding the makeup and behavior of less-understood critical components of cells, like lipids and glycols, and how a cancer cell might bind with a nanoparticle.
No doubt, freelancing has myriad upsides: A 2010 survey found that 93 percent of freelancers are happier since they became their own bosses, and less than 10 percent plan to return to full-time employment.
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