In days gone by we could, of course, have said with some degree of comfort that the accounts were meant to be for the benefit of shareholders in this situation because directors were subject to something called the stewardship concept.

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The analyst adds that he has confirmed that Apple is testing a store-in-store concept with Wal-Mart, a subject that has been the subject of significant blog chatter over the last few days.

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The SLYDE concept enables an infinite variety of virtual mechanical movements without being subject to the constraints of real-life production.

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