• The Japanese company, which is a big manufacturer of cell phones and infrastructure equipment such as base stations, once developed analog handsets for the North American market only to sell out of that business about 12 years ago.

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  • For those interested in base jumping, Khan recommends beginning with skydiving, then travelling to jumping points via tour groups such as Stevanger Base Klubb in Norway.

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  • For Billy Beane a thorough vetting meant having a track record showing exceptional ability on a metric such as on base percentage that could help his team win games.

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  • Tulowitzki's latest leg injury, however, raises questions anew about whether he can remain at shortstop or whether he should move to a position such as third base that would be easier on his body.

    WSJ: Tulowitzki happy with MRI but sits out vs Yankees

  • Starting in early 2013, the four-year initiative will focus on enhancing teacher education systems in eight countries so as to train an adequate number of qualified teachers to achieve EFA. Project activities will boost national capacity in ministries and key teacher training institutions, staff skills and competencies and supporting resources such as a knowledge base, with ICT as a major component.

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  • Big London-based investment banks already are looking at ways to lessen the impact of the potential new rules, such as sharply boosting base salaries, industry officials said.

    WSJ: EU Reaches Deal to Curb Bank Bonuses

  • At the time, the Blair government did little to discourage the widespread assumption that this meant long-range weapons could reach British targets, such as the military base on Cyprus.

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  • Or will it be able to eventually establish a more successful trading base such as LinkedIn (LNKD)?

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  • That could possibly mean leaving their income revenues on foreign soil, such as Apple is doing or taking flight altogether to move their base of operations to more attractive destinations, such as threatened by the angry birds of France.

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  • In the longer term, the ICBC unit hopes to use that business as a base to get into other areas such as underwriting securities in the U.S. market.

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  • He says seers such as Mr. Thongbai who base their predictions on visions or other supernatural phenomenon should be ignored.

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  • But a World Cup spokesman said extra tickets had been given to countries with a big fan base, such as England.

    BBC: England fans have paid inflated sums to see World Cup games

  • Meanwhile, the profits of publicly traded companies in base metals such as copper, aluminum iron and nickel are up 6%, on average.

    FORBES: Forget Gold, Buy Copper

  • China is the world's largest consumer of base metals such as copper, and any signs that growth in the region is faltering tend to be taken negatively by investors.

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  • The company disclosed details about its customer base, such as an estimate that 4.8% of its monthly active users were likely a duplicate account at the end of the second quarter.

    WSJ: Stocks Post Fourth-Straight Drop

  • Examples of these resources include oil, natural gas, precious metals (particularly gold and silver), base metals such as copper and nickel, and other resources such as diamonds, coal, lumber and even water.

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  • New storage systems are increasing using flash memory for system acceleration, such as faster transaction processing and data base searches.

    FORBES: A New Age of Digital Storage Interfaces

  • Purely by being so widely used, products such as Windows, with its customer base of 100m people, present a high barrier against competitors' entry.

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  • Recently, the domain has also developed vector data sets that represent subsets of information extracted from the base sensor data such as roads, pipelines and waterways.

    FORBES: Location Intelligence - The Future Looks Bright

  • Mr Bush has made the occasional faux pas with his base such as talking civilly to gay groups but not on matters that are top priorities for the right.

    ECONOMIST: American politics two years on

  • Citizenship based taxation robs the treasury of other countries of their rightful tax and spending base and as such is a form of person Colonialism only without having to exercise soverignty over land or an organized, unruly poulace.

    FORBES: Relinquishing U.S. Citizenship

  • "Having considered this report, it is the panel's view that this figure was presented without being underpinned by a sound evidence base and as such, it does not provide a convincing basis for centralising emergency services, " said the panel.

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  • Today, U.S. troops are allowed off the base only on infrequent "cultural tours" or for organized community service, such as a recent effort to refurbish a school near the base.

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  • Nobody else can market new content to such a wide base of mobile gamers as Zynga can, without spending significant market dollars.

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  • While much innovation and new investment in the US has moved to software driven areas such as social networking, hardware is the base that this software runs on.

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  • One could think of many reasons for considering a human base on Mars - such as over-population on Earth - but Darlene Lim is mainly motivated by the thrill of exploration.

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  • There are other reasons to assume a Facebook phone is the next logical step for the social media giant, such as it will cement its prime user base to it for just about eternity.

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  • As such, light vehicles will provide the base and platinum group metals markets with a solid source of demand growth.

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  • What's more, arch-leftists, such as octogenarian Deng Liqun, maintain a power base within the ruling party, periodically denouncing the "bourgeois liberalism" of contemporary society.

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