Before fully committing money to Genentech, Perkins and his collaborators contracted out those questions to two specialized research outfits.
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Many retailers pledge loyalty--or 80% of sales--to one of the top two brands, Trek or Specialized.
Hiring needs have changed over the past two decades and companies are seeking more specialized experience and skills.
The finches of the Galapagos, known as Darwin's finches, are the best known example, a single ancestral species from South America having given rise to 15 specialized forms in just the last two million years.
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Two more big guru buys were in shares of specialized software companies: Avid Technology and Fair Isaac.
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Two years later the attorney general's office created a specialized court to try femicides and other violent crimes against women.
The proposal calls for a two-phase approach to create a "freestanding SUNY 'specialized' college" with its own budget that would award doctoral degrees.
A. programs require, specialized business degrees offer entrance to students with just a year or two of experience.
Bikes are booming today--industry sales in 2011 are up 37%. (Fitness products do well during bad economic times.) Driving the trend are two American companies, Trek Bicycle of Waterloo, Wis. and Sinyard's Specialized Bicycle Components.
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The chip is a graphics accelerator, a specialized supercomputer of sorts that handles the flood of data needed to create moving two- and three-dimensional images.
The chip, called a Memory Spot, is at least two years away from widespread consumer use, but it could be deployed more quickly in specialized fields such as pharmaceuticals, said Howard Taub , vice president and associate director of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.
So it is that the world of silicon chips divides itself into two camps: the all-purpose ones that power desktop computers, and the fast, specialized, cheap ones that run cellular phones, answering machines or car engines.
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