Furthermore, Sony aimed its product not only at the teenagers that were Nintendo's core market but, by producing more sophisticated (and, indeed, more violent) games, at older and wealthier players too.

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Small, locally oriented producers like Dan Carey of Wisconsin's New Glarus Brewing or the Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver are able to experiment with rare brews and sophisticated flavors, producing just a few barrels of a style if they wish.

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His spending program, known locally as the Economic Transformation Plan, is a bid to drag Malaysia out of the so-called middle-income trap, which forces many emerging economies to compete with each other in producing cheap exports instead of developing more-sophisticated, value-added products.

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Then a Chinese rival, Huawei Technologies, began producing network switches that were less expensive and slightly less sophisticated but adequate for Chinese needs.

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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said there was a "sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver systems for producing material usable in weapons".

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