The third stream of benefits is the extra revenue flowing into the treasury.

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Its aim is to provide a third stream of private sector income, to run alongside National Lottery and government funding, for leading athletes.

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Advertisers, the folks who pay for those shows, are actually paying the most attention to a little-known third stream of data knows as C3.

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For instance, it may be perfectly ok to correlate location and time-of-day information, but it will be deemed unacceptable if a third stream of user context data is introduced.

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The third example builds on this last point and suggests a hierarchy of activity stream applications.

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Maruti Suzuki is currently adding to its production at Manesar, where a third assembly line for 250, 000 vehicles a year will go on stream before 2014.

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They also have an ace up their sleeve, a trump card that puts a giddy spin on the third act at just that point where both the previous movies began to run out of stream.

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Indeed, Twitter will bear many of the support costs associated with any third-party paid Tweets, as Twitter receives support emails related to anything a user sees in a tweet stream.

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