The gambit has been accepted but the endgame is far off in the future.
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Are you saying that this number will grow by the time we reach the endgame?
Just when you thought social networks were the endgame, along comes a new round of innovation.
For Apple, the endgame, of course, is selling more hardware, not dislodging Microsoft as a software monopoly.
We'll know more about that as we get closer to the endgame in terms of this recipient reporting.
"Here's the endgame--Nest ends up being the brains of the human energy system of the future, " he says.
The endgame : to woo the armies of web developers over to mobile , especially enterprise mobile.
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They were written before the events in New York which may well contribute to the endgame in Ireland.
If the cheap dollar has mostly caused the global cash surplus, then the endgame is not a happy one.
We are definitely viewing the Foundry as a piece of the endgame but definitely not a replacement of it.
"The endgame is a greater share of the consumer's wallet, " says Standard and Poor's Equity Research analyst Todd Rosenbluth.
The endgame sees Google and other Internet companies gradually pushing traditional carriers out of their coveted role in mobile telecommunications.
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"Licensing a mobile OS is not the endgame, " UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter wrote in a note to investors last week.
But Jobs' genius, in his Apple restoration, was to realize that his gift perfectly matched the endgame of the PC industry.
And Malley says even if the two sides do reach an agreement on the endgame, getting there in the current environment is virtually impossible.
With the U.S. deficit already going up 1, 000, 000, 000, 000 dollars a year the endgame of inflation could most certainly do that to the Dow, without an economic miracle.
But it is difficult to see how, absent European Central Bank action, yields will tighten or be stable in the near term, until there is more clarity on the endgame.
Russia, Belarus and Ukraine then further delayed the endgame of the conference with an argument over so-called "hot air" - the pollution permits they were given to allow their heavy industries to thrive.
Needless to say, a near doubling of the U.S. national debt suggests that the endgame to this crisis is going to eventually bring much higher interest rates and a collapse in today's bond-market bubble.
"We're coming to the endgame, " says Sally Thompson, executive director of The Border Consortium, the main agency providing aid to a string of Thailand camps, where you can find four generations living under one roof.
What they all have in common is a recognition of the centrality of people in the business equation, people not as the means to the end, profit above all, but people as the endgame itself.
But those minor differences aside, it is substantially the same endgame.
And, of course, the problem of accounting for unknown adverse effects has never been more acute for the drug industry, with intense and costly political controversies over the safety profile of drugs like Vioxx and Avandia leading to panic among patients, outrage among politicians, and the inevitable endgame of costly withdrawals and lawsuits.
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I'm not sure precisely the context I used the word "endgame, " but what I believe I was talking about was by the time the Recovery Act is between 70 and 80 percent spent out -- that's sometime around the 4th quarter of next year -- and at that point, we believe we'll have saved or created 3.5 million jobs.
As the fiscal cliff endgame threatens to unravel, this is where Apple stands.
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