If it plans to survive, it needs to differentiate itself from the competition and leverage its strengths.
The good news is that medical advances and improved technology allowed so many to survive who might not have made it home from past conflicts.
Those that cannot survive on their internal cash flow must seek it from other firms.
The scent must be immediately noticeable when removing clothes from the washer, and it must survive the heat of a dryer.
Competitive advantage, the way companies differentiate themselves from their competitors, is what it takes to survive and thrive in a competitive market environment.
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Fertility specialists in the U.S. told us it is actually possible for sperm to survive anywhere from a few hours to up to 48 hours in clean unconventional containers if kept at room temperature.
For instance, when three years ago vacuum coating equipment maker, ESTO-Vacuum, realized that in order to survive in the market it needed to expand, it sought capital from Rusnano.
Last March, in the bowels of global financial panic, it was far from clear that Bank of America would survive and that the stock was dirt cheap.
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But when that is not possible, to find the still center of resilience, and compassion, that it takes to not only survive, but to grow better from tragedy.
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To survive, a company has to prove that it can scrap its way back from defeat.
And because said referendum is going to be in 2012, when Greece is going to be in a position where it could credibly simply walk away from the deal, could survive a hard default, the deal is going to have to be made much, much, better if the Troika wants to win.
But it remains totally dependent on financial support from the Turkish mainland to survive.
That shortage of cash played a role in taking Northern Rock to the brink of collapse, made it impossible for HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland to survive without emergency loans from the Bank of England, and was an important factor in the collapse of Lehman Bros.
The price-tag of a legacy fighter may appear to be lower, but if it is less likely to survive combat, or its survival depends on support from electronic jammers and other helpers that a stealthy fighter does not need, then in the end the plane with the higher price-tag may turn out to be cheaper.
Of our social institutions, very few survive from that long ago: the Catholic Church (and various orders and sub-groups within it), the Japanese Monarchy, and so on.
When Shane Warne was out to a freakish catch from Geraint Jones, I must admit I thought it was going to be tough to survive another eight or so overs.
"It is also important for anyone suffering from diarrhoea to avoid swimming pools as Cryptosporidium can survive in chlorinated water".
It's waterproof to depths of 10 meters (33 feet), can survive drops from a height of 1.5 meters (5 feet) and can operate in temperatures ranging from 14 degrees to 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
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It was a way of separating sentiment from success, of triaging those whose campaigns could survive a long and often brutal political battle, of betting on horses not at the starting line, but as they pass each quarter-mile marker.
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Experts say it is unusual for so many organic objects to survive for this length of time in a grave from the Bronze Age period.
It seemed to provide a focus on long-term investment and management techniques that U.S. corporations could not match and from which it was thought that U.S. management needed to learn if they were going to survive.
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