The second releases T-Mobile from the potential tyranny that subsidies place on a network operator.

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The exchange operator goes through a rigorous process when studying potential new products, deciding on specifications, testing them, preparing systems, validating the interest from industry and traders, then preparing for the launch.

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Son, 40, the Kyushu-born son of a pachinko parlor operator, got a degree from Berkeley and recognized the potential of software far faster than any of Japan's corporate giants.

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Analysts said winning Facebook would have helped swing the pendulum in the Big Board operator's favor in terms of recruiting future listings and potential transfers.

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Think about what this advancement has meant just in terms of access to the resources: When drilling into a hydrocarbon bearing formation 100 feet thick, vertical drilling would allow an operator to contact 100 feet of rock, which would limit your potential recovery to whatever oil or gas would flow into that length of pipe.

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