What is a winning idea in this world of real-time optimization, where the idea is never static, but constantly shifting by design?

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However the number of full-time postgraduate students starting their first year remained static at 207, 665, resulting in an overall fall in first-year postgraduates of 5%.

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On the Start screen, dynamically updated "live tiles" show users real-time content directly, breaking the mold of static icons that serve as an intermediate step on the way to an application.

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But these are static measures ill-suited to crises, when prices fall so fast that, by the time the protection is activated, it is already too late: the financial equivalent of opening a parachute too close to the ground.

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