To me (d) is the biggest lost opportunity for Microsoft of all and perhaps is the object lesson in what nearly three decades of monopoly buys you.
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The object lesson worth drawing from this story is that just one instance of bad science given the blessing of recognized experts can lead to years of damaging lies that snowball out of control.
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Frankly, that represents the only route to an England win that I can see and I only hope that Pietersen's men have had the good sense to learn from the object lesson that they have been dealt by an outstanding one-day team.
The surprising object lesson: hard-headed Scotland, which in the 17th century attempted to build an overland trading route across the isthmus of Panama starting in an area known as Darien.
With last week's announcement that Web search company AltaVista was going to layoff 225 employees, one-fourth of its workforce, I finally concluded that Digital Equipment , AltaVista's founder, is the greatest single object lesson of the electronics age.
Put your hands together, therefore, for a country which has undertaken three original and far-sighted reforms to bring credibility to its monetary policy, stability to its public finances and prudence to its government accounts, and has thus transformed itself from one of the great disasters of modern macroeconomics into an object lesson in the conduct of economic policy.
The whole Provenge story, however it turns out, provides an object lesson on the risks and big payoffs that can come from investing in biotech.
Renewed inside and out, the new Judd Foundation is poised to give the art world and the general public fresh insight into a whole artistic era, as well as an object lesson in the nuanced dialogue between architecture and art, when it reopens its doors in June.
Security Council, the United States and other countries began going after companies that operate in Iran, Ghorb offered an object lesson in the hazards of doing business with Iranian partners.
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My hope is that the people who are running our economy do look to the Great Depression as an object lesson.
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But it is a nice object lesson in the basic economic proposition first put forward by David Ricardo as the Iron Law of One Price.
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Mr Olis's fate has also been seen as an object lesson of the dangers in the current climate of pleading not guilty and going to court, rather than striking a plea bargain with prosecutors.
They might sooner seem an object lesson in squandering the greatest gift in the world than a model for business smarts.
It was also an object lesson in how even the most sincere, well-intentioned comment can suddenly plunge you into a debate.
An object lesson perhaps in our not wanting the people who owe us the money to be the people who can set the rules about how they repay us that money.
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Illinois is an object lesson in why firms are starting to pay more attention to the long-term fiscal prospects of communities.
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The transferability of his gene therapies from treating cancer to treating EB is an object lesson in itself, as a breakthrough in one disease often leads to new treatments in another.
And perhaps that would be a very pointed object lesson for voters in Greece and Spain and Portugal that default and exit is even worse than the austerity the EU is insisting on.
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