The hotel, which opened in June, also marks a transition as the third generation increasingly takes over and charts new directions for the group.

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Durant, who's known more for his three NBA scoring titles than for stepping in the way of oncoming opponents, got in Harden's way on a transition drive in the third quarter in a standout defensive effort for the Thunder against the league's second highest-scoring offense.

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Whether any company flourishes or fails in the volatile period of transition between an aging Second Industrial Revolution and the emerging Third Industrial Revolution will depend, to a great extent, on their energy costs.

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Nearly a third of YouTube's archives have already made the transition to the open source format, though if you think that's a small proportion, you should probably know that those 30 percent account for 99 percent of all views on the site.

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"The Scotland project was a real transition point, " he says of his third project.

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Cellphone pioneer Motorola Mobility, a U.S. company now owned by Google, has stumbled through the transition as well, while Apple Inc. has become the world's third-largest maker of cellphones, less than six years after launching the first iPhone.

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Once companies have finished the third and final year of that subsidized program, Microsoft says, they will be able to transition to purchasing commercial products at about a 50% discount to standard pricing.

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