But the smartest thing about NetChannel is that it seeks to enhance television rather than replace it.

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How easy is it to repair for example: it is clearly greener to repair one component or replace it in the case of failure rather than insist on an entirely new machine.

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But, in this case, his past and future presence in the house would draw all ordinary comfort out of the situation and replace it with a pleasure that was nerve-racking rather than expansive.

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They call these complementary or cooperative rather than competing currencies because they are not competing to replace the official currency, but to complement it where it is leaving available resources unused.

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Rather than continue to fight a losing battle to replace the cable box, the company refocused on making it iPod-simple to watch shows across all of its devices.

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Unlike the pastoral culture it was intended to replace, the new therapeutic machinery was to be compulsory rather than voluntary, national rather than local, secular rather than spiritual, rigidly bureaucratic rather than idiosyncratically flexible.

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The Keynesian story goes like this- if there is collapse in private sector demand due to a failure of business confidence or some other economic shock, then rather than suffer unemployment and all the other negative consequences of recession it is possible for government through public spending to replace the lost demand and steer the economy back to full employment.

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If so, at that point, it is critical that Congress replace a dumb cut with a smart cut of equal value, rather than deferring or repealing the sequester.

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