Offenders are ordered to carry out work such as picking up litter, renovating community centres and clearing undergrowth and graffiti for local communities.
With the ability to offer lowest-price guarantees and exclusive online services, such as picking your own seat in an aircraft, the travel providers may well move into the lead.
According to these researchers, at any given time, each of us has around hundred pursuits, ranging from mundane aims, such as picking up toilet paper on the way home from work, all the way to lofty ambitions, such as changing the underlying social structure of the western world.
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Dubbed the "Bo Series, " these four bots sport the ability to walk and turn, move and grip with their arms, dozens of pre-programmed functions such as picking up objects, dancing, burping, whistling, and a kicking out a fair selection of " Kung Fu moves, " not to mention the ability to dictate your new friend with an IR remote.
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At the same time, the growth of other mobile devices such as tablets is picking up serious momentum.
Retail firms such as Walmart are picking up customers who might otherwise remain unbanked by offering them prepaid cards.
Dr Himmelstein worries that market pressures are forcing not-for-profits to adopt the tactics of their investor-owned rivals, such as hand-picking only the healthiest applicants and giving physicians financial incentives to cut costs.
Runs technology services giant Wipro, which has been on buying spree, picking up such firms as Finnish telecom software outfit Saraware and Portuguese retail software group Enabler.
Runs technology services giant Wipro (nyse: WIT - news - people ), which has been on buying spree, picking up such firms as Finnish telecom software outfit Saraware and Portuguese retail software group Enabler.
But it doesn't work well for picking up common problems such as heart attacks and strokes--exactly the ills Vioxx and its kin may have caused.
At the turn of the 20th century, he moved from Italy's sunny Adriatic coast to Paris in order to be closer to the epicenter of the Art Nouveau movement, picking up clients, such as Jean Cocteau, along the way.
The airline crew appreciated the relaxed banter and the suggestion that Virgin plant people at gates holding signs for "Madonna, " as if they were picking up such glitterati.
The right way to deal with greenhouse gases is through economy-wide measures, such as a carbon tax, rather than by picking on road transport, which accounts for only a fifth of all emissions and already pays more in various duties than would be extracted from it through any reasonable level of carbon tax.
Niche firms such as supermarket banks and credit-card companies are picking off profitable segments.
Many of the big retailers with websites, such as Circuit City and Sears, offer the option of picking up the goods in their shops.
But picking them instead of fourth-quartile losers such as Bombay Co. or Books-A-Million is largely a matter of luck.
This is more in keeping with other data, such as car sales and GDP, which suggest that the recovery is picking up steam.
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Keiser, who has led the portfolio since 2006, says that stock picking in this sector has changed a lot as technologies such as PCs and servers have become commoditized and the sector's annual revenue growth has slowed from 18% in the late 1990s to 9% now.
Essentially what it means is that analytics tools are picking up t.co as referral traffic instead of from such clients as Tweetdeck.
Some observers, such as Senator John McCain, have questioned the wisdom of making dual awards rather than picking one design.
He says the "giallorossi " (yellow-and-reds) are now one of the fastest growing clubs on Twitter, picking up followers at a faster rate than the likes of other global brands such as Celtic or Bayern Munich.
FolioFN is also picking up some revenue by applying its software and trading systems to related tasks, such as automating the work of maintaining separately managed accounts at Brinker Capital.
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