He credited non-proprietary architecture, with its high rate of innovation and low cost, with helping break open the server market, once dominated by proprietary vendors such as Sun Microsystems Inc.

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On the strength of groundbreaking technology from the mind of its late, relentlessly creative CEO, Steve Jobs, Apple grew revenue at the break-neck average annual rate of 48% over the past five years.

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At that rate Kassalow would need to sell millions of pairs to break even.

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This is the reason that as the years go by, more and more break outs fail and the success rate of technical patterns diminish.

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The balance of payments and exchange rates were making news, and the slow break-up of the Bretton Woods fixed-exchange rate system was under way.

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Even in Germany, which is suffering somewhat under the European cloud, but is sort of the break in that cloud, there is a corporate earnings growth rate at close to 10% for the year.

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That tiny usage rate of encryption, and the implication that law enforcement found other ways to circumvent or break it, seems to contradict long-running fears from law enforcement that encryption would make their job tougher.

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