Vice-presidents were once expected to be solid and reliable but mostly boring.

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And we have an interest in making sure that companies that benefit from an educated workforce, a free health service, a solid and reliable legal system and an efficient transport network, make their proper contribution to an infrastructure whose absence would be devastating to them.

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Rather, they reinforce their philosophy with solid research and reliable facts.

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The PlayStation brand is Sony's biggest weapon in this war, and its reputation for being solid, reliable and safe is paramount to its chances of future domination.

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Typically an innovation index will use solid, reliable and traditional metrics like numbers of patents registered, number of third and fourth level maths and engineering graduates leaving university, and the existence of industry clusters.

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The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users' data accessible and secure from loss.

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All children must have a champion, one who makes solid and sensible decisions that will help them grow into mature, happy and reliable adults.

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Simplified, higher density and more reliable servers make the hyperscale all-flash datacenter more efficient than datacenters based on solid state disk and hard disk systems.

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Panasonic's P2 solid-state memory cards ensure highly reliable video, audio, and metadata recording, especially in challenging conditions of extreme temperature range, shock, and vibration.

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