There is an especially exquisite irony here, since in the post-war period, at least until the 1980s, food firms were very happy to develop and promote, on its own terms, novelty, from new tastes to greater convenience, and consumers loved it and bought these innovative products.

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For drugs, the effective monopoly period is shorter: it can take a decade to develop, test and bring a patented molecule to market.

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All secondary headteachers agreed in principle to develop a working group to explore the benefits and efficiencies of implementing the 33-period week.

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Moe, Larry and Curley form a partnership to develop shopping centers with the idea that the centers will be held for a considerable period.

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First, the proliferation of information technologies enables China to gain access to and develop such capabilities in a relatively short period of time, especially when compared to a full-fledged conventional buildup.

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It is obvious today that for the Palestinians to develop into a society that may be capable of statehood in the long term, they require a period of a generation or two to rebuild their society in a peaceful way.

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