But while Apple created the modern tablet market, its dominance was not assured with a single form factor.
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Costa Rica's government has sent bills to congress that would tax money earned abroad, levy the sales tax on services as well as goods, and introduce a single form for income tax.
The advantage of the U.S. on the regulatory front, though, is its Federal organization, which leads to diverse incentive programs across states and insulates the industry from dependence on a single form of regulation.
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"They do not meet the authority's preferred model for a primary school, which is a school with single form entry or a school with no more than two age groups per class, " she said.
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This single form of Big Data has transformed almost every corner of modern life, and delivered to each of us access to knowledge not available to even the most powerful and richest people in the world a half-century ago.
Creating a single functioning market would form a single European energy champion - the European Gas Market.
All can be enjoyed with a 14-day free trial, via subscription or purchased in single issue form.
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The site provides a single order form for registering or backordering large volumes of domain names with partner registrars.
Charles Clarke said that in most cases they would now be able to send a single application form to the local education authority.
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Some provisions attempt to improve efficiency through administrative reforms, by, for example, requiring insurance companies to create a single standardized form for insurance reimbursement, to alleviate the clerical burden on clinicians.
Another possible, though less likely, outcome is that Vodafone and Verizon could merge to form a single entity.
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Another rationalization under consideration: combining the oil and gas operation with PreussenElektra to form a single, integrated energy operation.
In the collision, the trucks couple to form a single body C, which continues to move on the rails.
Only when outside and inside channels line up with each other to form a single tube can the ions begin to flow.
The units come together and join by way of a novel conical docking mechanism, allowing them to form a single, more complex robot.
The MIVP, with an assist from some custom firmware, stitches all of the input images together to form a single 2700 x 540 video stream.
In other words, the lenses would collectively form a single eye.
And through a series of small, incremental changes, various pieces of men's attire that had evolved to meet specific needs converged to form a single uniform.
The skeletons of brittlestars, which are sea creatures related to starfish and sea urchins, contain thousands of tiny lenses that collectively form a single, distributed eye.
It followed a decision by the DUP and the Ulster Unionists to form a single group which meant it would have become the largest bloc on the council.
This summer, two of them merged to form a single oval, larger than the earth, making the second-biggest storm in the solar system after the Great Red Spot.
Blackstone and Fortress languish in single-digits, down form post underwriting highs in the low thirties.
Women and girls thus form the largest single category of people deprived of full and equal opportunities for education.
Insulin molecules normally cluster together in a "six-pack" configuration, which the body has to convert to the single, or monomer, form.
Although the two bills were pending in parliament before it was dissolved, the parties said it was their intention to form only a single commission.
She follows conversation, reacts, engages and offers unsolicited ideas -- usually in the form of a single word or gesture that makes clear what she means.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families is piloting a possible replacement in the form of "single level tests" that children would take to confirm their teachers' assessment that they had reached a higher national curriculum attainment level.
For the juniors, Johan Lai continued his excellent form winning in J12 single sculls and teamed up with Joel Bullock to win J13 double sculls.
It is the largest single party in parliament, but cannot form a coalition with a majority.
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