Multiply that problem over thousands of IT products, and you get a sense of the disharmony threatening IT.
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Thousands of IT types dub themselves things like (chief) scrum master, guru, evangelist or, a particular favourite at the moment, ninja.
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Mr Cumpsty, a Conservative, described the shelter as looking "unloved" and said it would cost "a few hundred pounds to restore", compared to the thousands of pounds it would take to replace.
It affects thousands of birds because it coats their feathers and their skin.
One advantage of lending to a bank is that because it can spread risk over thousands of loans, it can guarantee individual deposits.
Tata Steel gave generous pensions to the thousands of workers it got rid of.
"We've learned over hundreds of thousands of years it's when they stop that we need to worry, " he says.
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Additionally, the company is currently reorganizing its recruiting staff to better handle the tens of thousands of applications it receives in a given month.
Deep within its thousands of pages it encourages whistleblowers to identify securities or commodities fraud by allowing them to share in the recoveries obtained from the information they provide.
The Anne Frank House told Judge Bade it was in favour of felling the tree, out of concern for the safety of the building and the hundreds of thousands of visitors it receives each year.
Further I advised that, given the hidden economic incentives involved in the pension consulting industry, that the agency should conduct forensic investigations of the thousands of pensions it has already overtaken, as well as any new pensions it terminates.
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Putting humans in a vehicle with millions of parts, atop thousands of pounds of explosives, and then operating it at high speeds while monitoring thousands of variables that rapidly change is hard stuff.
"If you think of Indonesia, it has (thousands of) islands and they cannot centralize their water supply ... the geographic makeup of the country makes it impossible, " says Janin.
Merck still faces tens of thousands of suits, and it is far from out of the woods.
With hundreds of thousands or millions of entries, it simply becomes statistically unlikely that you will win anything good.
Was it immoral to profit from the misfortune of thousands of homeowners or was it smart business?
But tens of thousands of Indians, it seems, are still waiting for their cheques.
Carbon dioxide stays in the air for a century, some of it into the thousands of years.
Because of federal investments, renewable energy use has nearly doubled, and thousands of Americans have jobs because of it.
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The bank has cut thousands of jobs since it was bailed out by taxpayers following the financial crisis in 2008.
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His mosaics decorating the walls of Tottenham Court Road underground station in central London beguile the thousands of people using it each day.
Shopping around at different hospitals before you have an expensive procedure can save you thousands of dollars when it comes time to pay co-payments.
"They've managed to cope with and deal with all these hundreds of thousands of refugees and it's very nearly the second anniversary, " he said.
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The captain made emergency maneuvers to save the ship and the thousands of people on it, according to Mr. Schettino's attorney and the coast guard.
Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people ) is also seen cutting thousands of jobs as it acquires Lehman Brothers' U.S. brokerage operations.
Drawing on polls, focus groups and web chats involving tens of thousands of people, it found that the Commonwealth was more popular among poorer states than richer ones, but misunderstood everywhere.
Both sides have big wide-open fields and they have been here for months and months spending tremendous amounts of time, money, huge numbers of staff, volunteers, thousands of ads, it's just incredibly intense.
One of the most exciting aspects of the Information Age we live in is that we are collecting and systematizing hundreds, if not thousands of years of data and putting it all together.
In the past three years it has taught thousands of children how to sail and it is also helping to develop a women's squad in an effort to boost Oman's Olympic chances.
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