And some in the tech community complain that its anything-goes structure and sky's-the-limit earning potential has turned the environment at some companies into something akin to your worst stereotype of a booze-soaked frat party.
" Compared with fracking's money-making potential, he says, "monitoring these wells doesn't cost a lot of money.
Most Lebanese, not just Christians, worry about the militia's trouble-making potential nearly as much as they fear their powerful neighbour.
Amid the mania, Payton is measured in assessing Lin's long-term potential.
More broadly, India's current sharp growth recession has shown that reforms in land, labor and other natural resources are necessary to improve the economy's long-term potential.
The key to unlocking Europe's rail-freight potential lies in co-ordinating its Byzantine network of 30 national railways, each with its own standards, fare structure and regulations.
But in recent years universities have been urged to make offers of places based on an assessment of a student's potential - not just their raw grades.
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Mr Bush and his team have exhausted most of their legislative energy (not to mention the government's tax revenues) on measures they claim will improve the economy's supply-side potential, such as a cut in dividend taxes.
On the basis of the past few years, he thinks the trend rate of productivity growth - and thus the economy's potential growth rate - is lower than we thought before the crisis.
Not long before the Internet search giant's 2004 IPO the technorati likewise pooh-poohed Google's potential.
One of McCain's biggest potential virtues -- his appeal to moderates -- was gone.
Schering-Plough's next potential hit is Zetia, a promising cholesterol pill being developed by Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ).
We are convinced that the U.S.-Russia economic potential is great.
The EU did have a competitiveness pact: the so-called Lisbon Agenda, which was launched in 2000, ran until last year, and was intended to raise the bloc's long-term growth potential.
"Scotland, it's a potential banana-skin, " said the Wales coach.
Mr Ross stepped down as director of Carphone Warehouse, which he co-founded, after it emerged that he had used millions of pounds worth of shares as collateral against personal loans without informing the company's other directors - a potential breach of City rules.
It's a potential e-commerce bonanza.
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Right now, Prozac isn't just the company's biggest moneymaker--it's one of its biggest potential liabilities.
Seeing the chemical's potential for on-site testing and its appeal to a wider market, the company, then called U.S. Drug Testing, changed its name.
Many began 2012 predicting "Grexit" and yet we are starting 2013 with talk of "Brexit" - Britain's potential departure from the European Union, following Prime Minister David Cameron's speech last week.
Meanwhile, auto makers are proving there's still plenty of potential in the gas-powered engine to meet customer's fuel-efficiency demands.
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We'll be keeping a close eye on how the November results alter the status quo -- between Windows Phone, LG's Optimus G and a cavalcade of multi-device launches, there's been potential for more than one tidal shift in the mobile world in the past few weeks.
ENGADGET: ComScore: Android's US share kept growing in October, Apple passed LG in all cellphones
We're all for the new Moto's less-is-more approach and the potential it has to breed a new Nexus device, but Google's already made it clear that it isn't playing favorites with OEMs. Either way, it's a start.
ENGADGET: Motorola to cut its workforce by 20 percent, shutter a third of its offices worldwide
In addition, Morningstar.com's tax analysis will show you a fund's potential capital gains exposure in the future--that is how much in unrealized gains it has accumulated.
But since the break-up of the Soviet Union, it's been eyeing a potential new source of oil and gas -- the Caspian Sea.
Also, the shale boom in the U.S. and the long-term potential of the oil sands business in Canada might have prompted a shift in focus.
Waterfall added that FloDesign's low-wind technology has the potential not only to revolutionize wind-power technology, but also to make wind-power a viable energy solution for New England's energy needs.
To better understand the virus's spread and potential for human-to-human transmission, Chinese and World Health Organization officials said Wednesday in Beijing that they plan to boost surveillance and research on H7N9.
The potential of an S-1 filing this October will surely also drive up interest in secondary transactions through sites such as SecondMarket and Sharespost, as well as special purpose vehicles targeting Facebook stock.
WHO's director-general, and report potential pandemics at once.
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