But Samsung Electronics, an affiliate of the Samsung chaebol, did have one thing going for it: The firm was totally committed to the up-and-coming phone standard of the time, known as CDMA technology (or code division multiple access), adopted by Sprint.
They thus blame the gold standard systems of the time for preventing any such action.
And the onset of standard time's early nightfall seemed inconsequential as voters arrived at polling stations until closing time.
It seems counter-intuitive, but job losses through creative destruction are probably a better indicator of a rising standard of living over time than job gains.
Squeezing down current consumption and encouraging maximum saving and investment produces a higher growth rate and higher standard of living some time in the future.
Firms that used to collect on average about 92 cents for every dollar of standard time their lawyers worked in 2007, before the economic downturn, now are getting less than 85 cents.
Just maintaining the real, long term, U.S.economic growth rate of 3.2% from 1947 to 2007 would have doubled our GDP of today 4 times, meaning a GDP 16 times as large as today, In that future, the poor of the time will have the standard of living of the American middle class in 2065.
When I saw a wire service photo several hours later of Time's cover, a standard news shot of Diana, I knew our issue would crush theirs on the newsstand.
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The gold-standard era was a time of more frequent recessions, more protracted recessions, and more severe recessions.
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This oak had been aged nine to 12 months, up to three months longer than the normal length of time for standard barrel wood.
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"The industry has been looking forward to the publication of this standard for some time, " noted Desi Rhoden, Chairman JC-42 Memory Committee and Executive VP Montage Technology.
For the same number of hours worked, workers can enjoy the same standard of living even as they allocate more of their working time to purchasing health care.
People have more vivid memories of the colorful, Super Bowl Shuffling 1985 Bears (also 15-1 with a second-best all time standard deviation of 2.10), because that club was a one-year wonder that never got back to a Super Bowl.
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But, at the same time, Alabama preacher David Platt is igniting thousands of young people with his book "Radical, " which calls Christians to rescue their faith by lowering their standard of living and giving their time and money to Church-based charities.
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Americans of a certain age might recall a time when airlines were the gold standard of customer service, when champagne flowed freely and every passenger received a hot meal.
And countries that don't are going to see, over time, their standard of living decline.
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These tickets also are capped at 400 per day and often sell out farther ahead of time than the standard tickets.
The discovery of aspirin was inspired by Felix Hoffman's attempt to find a drug to ease his father's arthritis without causing the severe stomach irritation associated with the standard anti-arthritis drug of the time, sodium salicylate.
One advantage of the ETN packaging comes at tax time when you receive a standard 1099 form instead of the more complicated K-1 and special rules governing the taxation of MLP distributions.
The standard of the orchestra is growing all the time, and a European tour is on the cards for 2012.
Fitzgerald believes that standard inpatient treatment for a set period of time, or until an addict is "cured, " is ineffective.
The consensus among gastroenterologists is that one or at most two of the devices will survive the test of time and become a standard treatment option, while the others will fade away.
At 3.5 percent growth, the standard of living would more than quintuple in that time.
"There's a misconception that we're a full-time club of Super League standard with Super League expectation, " he told BBC Radio Merseyside.
In the sense of project finance, and over standard time horizons, it is the norm rather than the exception that transport projects do not pay for themselves.
For much of the time since allied occupation ended in 1955, Austrians have had a high standard of living without extremes of rich or poor.
The gold standard of proof is "contemporaneous records" such as time-stamped store receipts or a log.
Rockefeller, the founder of the Standard Oil Company and (at that time) richest man in the world.
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They profited greatly and saw their standard of living increase faster than any other accurately recorded time in American history.
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