But Ford says 10, 000 Focus owners defect to other brands each year because it doesn't offer an attractive step-up model.
Interestingly (at least for a flagship), it appears to be a dual-SIM version, with the mono-SIM version apparently picking up model number GT-i9500 -- a number that would fit in with the series so far.
Lately, his Lean LaunchPad course at Stanford has been the model for an intriguing pilot programme called Innovation Corps (or I-Corps for short) which seeks to turn the traditional Silicon Valley start-up model on its head, and thereby reduce the woeful failure rate of new ventures.
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Union leaders have even held up the model as an example for other industries.
"If you're on an aircrew, you can just pick up a model of the airplane that you fly, " he said.
He set up a model using an algorithm based on the Monte Carlo optimization method used in statistics and mathematics.
As the first really big acquisition of an enterprise 2.0 business it also validates the bottom-up sales model which Yammer pioneered on a large scale.
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G10 group of rich countries has come up with model collective-action clauses that are, in many ways, weaker than those that already exist under English law.
Dr. Boustani, who is also associate director of the Healthy Aging Brain Center, says he is working with health-care systems in other states to duplicate the program, with an aim to affordably scale up the model to a national level.
When we set this model up we say that in such a model firms are price takers.
Their New York bookstores are usually held up as the model of relaxed, accessible book-selling.
The office has been set up on the model of the National Security Council.
So Dell is held up as a model of social engagement as its sales falter.
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With insights gained from that experience and other research, he came up with his model for Fledge.
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Yet again another music start-up has decided to give up on their model over the cost of musical rights.
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None of this stops outsiders from holding Chile up as a model, and no longer just to Latin America.
Their response was to found Yirrkala Business Enterprises, a company now held up as a model to other aboriginal communities.
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With luck, the Nordics will come up with a model that is a little less Scandinavian, but a lot more alluring.
Moreover, the German federal system (devolution, grassroots democracy and so on) has often been held up as a model by European integrationists.
At the moment, though, it seems doubtful this exercise will be held up as a model of how to empower local communities.
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By waiting until October to release the fifth-generation iPad, Apple will have given consumers a full year to buy up the last model.
Masako is often held up as a model for Japanese women, who are increasingly pursuing professional careers, marrying late, if at all, and postponing childbirth.
This is all the information you need to be able to correctly identify your handset and sell it so you can pick up a newer model.
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PLC, is betting that its move to 4G will allow it to shake up its pricing model and better secure and attract the most affluent data-hungry customers.
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Personally, I think the WNBA has to take the lead and do something out of the box and shake up its current model to tackle these issues.
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This requires proper upfront planning, but if done right, one can end up with a model like Denmark, which essentially recycles 50% of its waste heat for other uses.
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The researchers scanned an enclosure with lasers to build up a 3D model of the environment, then filmed a pair of gibbons in high definition as they jumped between branches.
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