One request, for example, could someday arrange a discount flight to Paris, to be met by a red limo with chocolates in the backseat, and to take you to a Champs-Elyses hotel room higher than the fifth floor.
Location is not shared with any third party or ad unless the user explicitly approves giving the current location to the current ad (for example, to request the ad locate the Target store nearest them).
For example, users can request songs as well as vote on them and share them with friends, such as on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) or Twitter.
The government recently imposed fresh anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports of sodium bicarbonate, for example, at the request of Penrice Soda Holdings, Australia's sole producer of soda-ash crystals, which appear in everything from animal feed to antacids.
For example, it declined a request to intervene in the Central Africa Republic, where an insurgency flared.
The rest are automatic, such as clicking a pre-configured link or having the browser execute request within a web page (for example, requests to call images and additional content from third party sites).
For example, a medical company could request a glass model be built to spec for testing a new heart-valve catheter.
For example, even if you did not request an extension to file your 2010 tax return and actually filed your return on or before April 18, 2011 (because April 15 is a holiday in the District of Columbia), you have until October 17, 2011, to re-characterize your 2010 Roth IRA rollover or conversion.
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For example, sometimes when a senior manager makes a request, it causes a cascade of activity that is far beyond what she intended.
For example, a person searching the Web for jewelry might request to see ads just around Christmas and Valentine's Day.
Drummond, whose search company avoids some of these complexities by tapping humans to do its indexing, notes that it would possible to simplify the problem and merely determine, for example, whether or not the Web application has made a data request to Facebook.
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Example: It used to take about a month for a major plant or equipment purchasing request to get action inside Cemex.
The recent request for proposals by Microsoft Research to address challenges at the intersection of human trafficking and technology offers a promising example.
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Example: A new report prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (at the request of Grassley and Baucus) suggests requiring brokers to report to the IRS the basis of any publicly traded securities a taxpayer sells.
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