Fiat currencies have their advantages, but one disadvantage is that disasters like these can happen.
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Smaller papers will try to exploit their advantages in such areas as local sport.
Polymer solar cells have attracted great attention due to their advantages over competing solar cell technologies.
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As the country gets better at building interactive robots, their advantages for Japanese users will multiply.
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Of course for-profit firms bring some downsides as well, which tend to be the flip side of their advantages.
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And while grassroots strategies have their advantages, a dash of celebrity never hurts.
Cutting benefits, and so removing their advantages over married couples, was one approach.
Abrupt increases in the prices of coke and scrap metal have pounded minimills like Nucor, offsetting their advantages in labor costs.
Many famous tax evaders have used offshore banks to their advantages.
Even in a negative scenario, such voices would struggle to win all their arguments: enlargement has given the newcomers a big say, and they are not about to harmonise away all their advantages.
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Far from being inflexible, he was quick to change his mind about issues such as code-sharing and even deregulation (both of which he initially denounced with a torrent of expletives) once he saw their advantages.
The people who care about it are the large enterprises that IBM sells to, companies like Sears, ING, Heinz and Air Canada, and these firms tend not to want too talk much about how they use technology for fear of disclosing their advantages to competitors.
The momentum they are gaining and the way they are applying their advantages are transforming global markets, propelling Chinese telecom and technology ventures toward the leading edge of technology development, manufacturing, and standards setting, according to a report from the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission, published in January 2011.
None of these have taken off just yet, but they all offer their own advantages--and face their own obstacles.
Both have every right to press home their commercial advantages, as indeed has America.
This approach allows every manufacturer to focus on their core advantages, and the customer is the winner.
As David Ricardo described way back in the 18th century, economies should focus on their comparative advantages.
This is where living in cities like New York and San Francisco have their peak advantages.
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In this time-obsessed society, the instant-on convenience of smartphones and tablets is one of their biggest advantages over Windows laptops.
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His opening chapters show that circumstances often change before minds do: workers embraced technology only after their economic advantages became clear.
But don't expect their quality advantages to win the day in Washington.
Asian governments have long taken the view that the superiority of their family life was one of their big advantages over the West.
Big American, Japanese or European firms, which have benefited from their ready access to capital, should therefore be losing one of their main advantages.
It also stated that the U.S. has been less interested in supplying industrial equipment, which stems in part from fears of its companies losing their competitive advantages if expertise is also exported.
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Their calling card is being smaller, faster, and cagier than the other teams, and they get their biggest advantages from stealing passes, rebounds, loose balls, and dunking spectacularly before the other team knows what happened.
Additionally, due to their inherent advantages over traditional spinning hard drives, including better performance, lower power consumption, and increased reliability, drives made from solid state flash products should continue to gain in popularity as prices fall and capacities rise.
Admirers of family-controlled companies say Investor demonstrates two of their big advantages: they are able to take longer-term decisions without worrying about being taken over or meeting short-term profit targets, and the interests of managers and shareholders are well aligned.
The fundamental problem is that it is hard for management to realize that their competitive advantages of today are unlikely to last, and if they wait to build the next generation advantage until the warning signs are loud and clear, they have little hope of recovering their former glory.
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