Like Blue Pillar, PowerSecure, a Wake Forest, NC-based veteran of the energy services industry, is also jockeying for position in the networked energy space.

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He chose to retire early and to become a pillar of San Francisco activities like the San Francisco ballet and his beloved Commonwealth Club, where he played a key role.

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No deliberations over a Hurd or an Apotheker can mean much when the board is content to let a company like H-P lurch from pillar to post in hopes of quick revenue injections to stave off inevitable market share erosions.

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Ms. Zhu says investors have bought into sectors like commodities and machinery on expectations that infrastructure investment will remain a pillar of urbanization.

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Peter, a man who his friends described as a pillar of the London tango community, says that "there is just nothing like the tango".

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It looks like Getco, not long ago an outsider, is part of the establishment and a pillar of the American economy, or something of the sort.

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Leaders who have built this pillar consistently do what needs to be done when it needs to be done, whether they feet like doing it or not.

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