Scenario planning tends to be a lengthy process that sucks up a lot of time and energy.
Partly because it is a new business that sucks up capital in its early stages, long before earnings can materialize.
So that's why CNN - as Andrew famously said once to the media, it's not your business model that sucks.
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To replace the force of gravity to ensure waste goes down into the toilet, there is actually a vacuum hose that sucks the waste.
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That means more nutrients in the soil, where it feeds food crops, and less in lakes and streams, where it feeds algae that sucks up oxygen and kills fish.
Over the years, Ota's craftsmen have fashioned humble but handy creations like the pull tab that doesn't cut fingers or a gizmo that sucks air out of bottles before they're recycled.
There are a few more inventive tactics that are increasingly becoming popular among thieves, such as constructing a rubber band and paper clip hook that sucks up products under the sleeve.
The software is an online service called ShipStation, that sucks in all our orders from Shopify, Amazon, and Etsy, and then prints the address and the postage directly on the label.
So, the next time you start to moan about the weird tech support guys and grumble about your internal support costs and how little seems to get done just understand that this stupid Microsoft bug is just one small part of the black hole that sucks away their time.
The purchase positions Google for the biggest merger of all: from the television big screen that sucks up nearly 5 hours of viewing each day (versus 10 minutes of video viewing any other way and only 12 minutes on Facebook on average per FB user) to ogling the small screens on computers, tablets and smartphones.
One reason is that nothing sucks the energy out of a protest movement faster than winning power.
"That issue sucks up all the air, and you don't get to talk about taxes and Social Security and health care and education and national defense, " said Rep. J.
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Most of the Mac's life, whoever was on team Mac could count on Steve Jobs standing behind them, telling them that their latest idea sucks, ranting that they'll have to do better.
We also got the impression that this thing sucks down a serious amount of juice.
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They cannot change the subject to the economy without tripping over the voters' belief that the economy sucks.
Some of the exhibits might be called "Remedies and Old Wives Tales, " if you believe that a child who sucks duck breath will cure a throat ailment.
The environmental result is that the value chain sucks ever more raw materials through as fast as possible, swallowing up huge volumes of timber, steel, plastic and energy in the process.
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And that, of course, sucks in money from abroad, strengthening the shekel.
Traditional RISC processors can handle digital signal processing tasks, but the additional work sucks up valuable processing power that could be used elsewhere, said David Pelavin, product marketing manager for Hitachi's SuperH product family.
Sovereign debt issuance sucks up capital (savings) that corporations or individuals could use for their own purposes.
But it still sucks when you recommend an investment opportunity that performs poorly.
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Prison sucks, and right now nobody knows that more than Raj Rajaratnam who began serving an 11 year prison sentence in December for charges associated with insider trading.
In general, one of the commonest problems of government reflation is that the benefits leak out beyond your borders because the programme sucks in imports.
It's a catheter with a rotor blade at its tip that chops away at the gunk on the artery walls and then sucks it up.
Medicare currently sucks up nearly 13 percent of the entire federal budget, and that share is growing.
Among the innovations: a cooling system that recycles heat from generators to power an absorption chiller which, in turn, sucks in fresh air through landscaped terraces.
The fundamental problem that Mr Draghi faces is the acute divergence within the euro zone as capital flight sucks funds out of the periphery and into the core, making monetary conditions simultaneously tight and loose.
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